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Alison Barkoff

@abarkoff.bsky.social
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Health law and policy, aging and disability, LTSS, civil rights, Medicaid; GW School of Public Health; former HHS and DOJ

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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Thread: Latest House GOP reconciliation bill language again makes the draconian #Medicaid cuts harsher. For example, mandatory work requirements now will take effect 12/31/26 instead of 1/1/29 and states have option to implement them earlier (1/x)
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Natalie Kean @nataliekean.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Taking them at their word, they want to take #Medicaid from low-income older women most of whom left the workforce to provide caregiving. #ProtectMedicaid
infographic on Who are "able-bodied" non-working Medicaid Beneficiaries. 4/5 are women. 1/2 are age 40+. 1/4 are age 50+
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Alison Barkoff @abarkoff.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Proud to be part of this effort to protect the Affordable Care Act’s critical preventative health provisions. Thanks to my colleagues at GW Milken Institute School of Public Health for leading this.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.
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Alison Barkoff @abarkoff.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Check out my new Health Affairs article with colleague Sara Rosenbaum. TL:dr—Big cuts to Medicaid hurt everyone, period. Despite representations from Congress otherwise, there is no way to spare people with disabilities, older adults or caregivers. #Medicaid #Disability #Aging #Caregiving
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Richard Edwards @edwardsr0203.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Key quote (IMO)..."Despite promises from members of Congress otherwise, there simply is no way to “carve out” people with disabilities, older adults and their caregivers from the impact of these proposals." Thank you for this warning/primer/call to action.
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Alison Barkoff @abarkoff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Read our new Health Affairs article to learn more about what lies ahead for Medicaid in the budget reconciliation process. TL:dr — big cuts to #Medicaid hurt everyone! www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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What Lies Ahead For Medicaid In Budget Reconciliation? | Health Affairs Forefront
Should Congress pursue a wide range of possible budget-cutting strategies during the budget reconciliation process, all Medicaid populations, from the youngest infants to the most vulnerable older adu...
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Alison Barkoff @abarkoff.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Join us on Weds 2/12 at 12:30 ET for a briefing on the lawsuit challenging the critical disability rights law, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and new regs. I and other lawyers from @dredf.bsky.social and CPR will explain what’s at stake and how you can help. #Disability #CivilRights #504
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Rachel Sachs @rachelsachs.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Sam - a former HHS General Counsel - lays out key statutory and regulatory problems with the Trump admin’s latest effort to harm US medical research and scientific innovation (by dramatically reducing NIH indirect payments).
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Alison Barkoff @abarkoff.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Really important data from @kff.org showing how critical #Medicaid is for disabled people (w/ state data for advocates) and that expansion states spend more (not less as the myth does) on traditional Medicaid populations. #SaveMedicaid
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Alison Barkoff @abarkoff.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
In my experience as the head of a federal agency, disabled employees were not only qualified for their jobs (as disability laws require!!) but some of the agency’s best employees. #Disability #Employment www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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'Kick in the teeth': Disabled federal workers fear for their jobs after Trump remarks
Trump's remarks about disabled workers and recent White House moves have alarmed federal employees with disabilities who fear for their jobs.
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HealthBegins @healthbegins.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is yet another attack on #reproductiverights, especially for low-income families. #Medicaid The Supreme Court Puts Access To Medicaid Family Planning Care On The Line | Health Affairs buff.ly/3WP6lBx CC: @abarkoff.bsky.social @gwpublichealth.bsky.social
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Cynthia Cox @cynthiaccox.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
NEW: several federal datasets and health surveys came offline on Friday We @kff.org explain what these data are & how they’re used in interventions to address our nation’s biggest health challenges @jenkatesdc.bsky.social @mattrae.bsky.social @lindseydawson.bsky.social www.kff.org/policy-watch...
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A Look at Federal Health Data Taken Offline | KFF
This post looks at federal government databases with key health data that went offline on Jan. 31, 2025, including several related to HIV, some of which had returned by Feb. 2, 2025. It briefly descri...
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Alison Barkoff @abarkoff.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Thank you to @washingtonpost.com for the opportunity to be clear that disability laws address discrimination and barriers to employment for disabled people (of which there are so many); unqualified people are not being hired because disability laws. #Disability #Employment wapo.st/3PYbovR
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Disability advocates fear backlash, discrimination after Trump’s FAA comments
Veterans’ groups and advocates for those with disabilities have issued scathing criticisms of the president’s baseless comments about the reasons behind the fatal plane crash last week.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Why Write About the Illegality of What Trump and Musk are Doing? My latest newsletter post here: buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
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Why Write About the Illegality of What Trump and Musk are Doing?
By Samuel Bagenstos NYU Law professor Noah Rosenblum posted on Bluesky yesterday that “[t]here has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short)...
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Alison Barkoff @abarkoff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We’ve worked too hard to fight disability stereotypes and bias in employment to let baseless claims undermine our work. #Disability www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
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People with intellectual disabilities do lots of jobs–but they don't direct air traffic
After the fatal crash over the Potomac River, the President says diversity hiring has made the skies unsafe, but that's not how disability hiring works
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 18/01/2025
📣 REMINDER: Residents of CA, DC, MA, NJ, NY, RI & VA still have time to #GetCovered starting Feb. 1st! acasignups.net/25/01/16/aca...
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#ACA Open Enrollment: Some states still have time for Feb. coverage! Here's 15 important things to remember.
The 2025 ACA Open Enrollment Period (OEP) officially begins on November 1st. This is the best OEP ever for the ACA for several reasons: The expanded/enhanced premium subsidies first introduced in 2021...
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Alison Barkoff @abarkoff.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
For folks looking for ways to support the LA community during this tragedy:
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How to help victims of the Los Angeles fires
The fires have razed through roughly 42 square miles — nearly the size of the entire city of San Francisco.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A little piece from me on disability law as a lens through which to view the Grants Pass homelessness litigation, forthcoming in a disability law symposium in the Wayne Law Review: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Limits of Negative Rights Claims in Social Change Litigation: A Disability Law Perspective on Grants Pass
<p>This essay, prepared for a symposium on disability law, examines the Supreme Court's 2024 decision in <em>City of Grants Pass v. Johnson</em> through the len
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
As HHS General Counsel from June 2022 to December 2024, I frequently advised CDC on its public health authorities. Here, I argue that it would be unlawful for Trump and Stephen Miller to restrict immigration on the pretext of invoking those authorities. buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
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Using Public Health as a Pretext to Restrict Immigration Would Violate the Law
Doing his best impression of Inspector Javert, Donald Trump’s henchman Stephen Miller is apparently spending the time before the inauguration turning over...
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Alison Barkoff @abarkoff.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
This is yet another tragic example of why inclusive disaster planning and response is an absolute must (and required by the law!!!). Without intentional planning, disabled people and older adults again and again get left behind. #InclusiveDisasterResponse #Disability #Aging #ADA #504
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The Trump Republican reconciliation bill will be a clear and present danger for disabled people and families. (Just for starters.) Why Medicaid cuts could be a ‘crisis’ for people with disabilities www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/t... via @statnews.com
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Why Medicaid cuts could be a 'crisis' for people with disabilities
If the new administration slashes federal Medicaid spending, millions of people with disabilities would be cut off from critical health care services.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/12/2024
Discrimination based on someone's age is so ingrained in society that most of us don't notice it. Yet it affects us all and fighting it not only helps make a better society, it also helps us live longer, healthier lives.
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How to fight ageism in the world around you — and in yourself
Discrimination based on someone's age is so ingrained in society that most of us don't notice it. Yet it affects us all and fighting it not only helps make a better society, it also helps us live long...
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 28/12/2024
Disabled people shouldn’t make less money just because we’re disabled. Tell the Department of Labor to end subminimum wages! Learn more and take action:
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Take Action on Fair Pay for Disabled Workers with a Public Comment! - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Download this explainer as a PDF here. Listen to someone read this explainer out loud here. Words to know 14(c): A part of the Fair Labor Standards Act that says employers can pay disabled people…
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Willa @willawillnot.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
it's dire. another striking disparity: if you fall and break your hand, your insurance has to cover that. unless it's a prosthetic hand. sorry, service lifetime isn't complete, hope you can afford the 20k+ replacement out of pocket. it's your hand, you say? to insurance companies it's a gadget.
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Medicaid Facts: #Medicaid covers Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) so patients can get to/from their medical appointments when they don't have other means. It's particularly critical for people with disabilities and seniors on Medicaid. #healthpolicy www.cms.gov/medicare/med...
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Here’s a gift link to an important article! Georgia’s approach to Medicaid for adults has been an utter disaster in terms of public taxpayer dollars being wasted while few are able to access health insurance. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...
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Senators Call for Investigation of Medicaid Work Requirement Program (Gift Article)
A group of Democratic lawmakers accused Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the only Medicaid work requirement program in the country, of spending little of its funding on health benefits.
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Justice in Aging @justiceinaging.org · 20/12/2024
🚨 Act Now: 🚨 Tell Congress to reauthorize the Older Americans Act in the end-of-year funding package. This vital legislation supports legal assistance, nutrition services, senior center programs, caregiver support, and more.
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Say YES to expanding services for older adults!
I just sent a message to my members of Congress to protect the Older Americans Act from funding cuts... and it was really easy! Join me in asking Congress to invest in aging well for older adults and ...
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