I swear the Republicans sit around at night and try to figure out how to hurt Americans, especially those of us least equipped to fight back, the poorest, the disabled, the elderly, the sick.
Damn them.
It’s bad enough they are trying to ram through a 500 BILLION dollar slush fund to be controlled by the Mafia in the White House for the purpose of rewarding their pet cronies, probably including themselves, when corporations and big business have already been handsomely and wrongly rewarded with trillions of dollars of taxpayer money which they basically flushed.
No.
They went and made their “stimulus” even worse by including a provision that would NOT help reimburse or guarantee loans for not-for-profits and other businesses that rely upon Medicaid!
You read that right. This would mean no help for mental health providers, clinics, nursing homes, facilities for old and disabled people that rely upon Medicaid for reimbursement.
Those assholes.
From WaPo:
The provision in question is a limitation on funding that the GOP stimulus bill has built into the measure that sets aside $350 billion to provide loans for small businesses. That money would be available to small businesses that don’t lay off workers.
According to language in the bill forwarded to me by a senior Senate Democratic aide, this provision excludes “nonprofits receiving Medicaid expenditures,” which would not be eligible for those loans.
This language has been interpreted in some quarters as an effort to deny funding to Planned Parenthood, a longtime GOP target. But Democratic aides think the language means a lot more than this.
Specifically, Democratic aides believe this language would exclude from eligibility for this financial assistance a big range of other nonprofits that get Medicaid funding, such as home and community-based disability providers; community-based nursing homes, mental health providers and health centers; group homes for the disabled; and even rape crisis centers.
“The Republican Senate bill would prevent many small Medicaid-funded providers from accessing small business loans,” Mara Youdelman, the managing attorney of the National Health Law Program’s D.C. office, told me.
Where’s Charles Dickens when you need him?
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