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Kaylan Szafranski

@kszafranski.bsky.social
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Medicaid policy @CommunityCatalyst | Former Director of Policy & Research @ NCChild | Long-time health policy advocate rooted in the power and expertise of community views/posts are my own. (she/they)

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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 09/10/2026
Communities shouldn’t have to wait until a hospital closes or a maternity ward disappears to know their healthcare is at risk. Community Health Market Watch™️ combines data + community voices to help advocates see warning signs earlier. pulse.ly/lfztqgwylt
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National Health Law Program @nhelp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
States are moving fast on OBBBA Medicaid changes. A new guide from @communitycatalyst.org and @nhelp.bsky.social NHeLP helps advocates navigate oversight, identify advocacy strategies, and take action. By Kaylan Szafranski & Elizabeth Edwards. healthlaw.org/resource/sta...
States are moving fast on OBBBA Medicaid changes. A new guide from @communitycatalyst.org and @nhelp.bsky.social NHeLP helps advocates navigate oversight, identify advocacy strategies, and take action. By Kaylan Szafranski & Elizabeth Edwards. https://healthlaw.org/resource/state-advocates-guide-to-obbba-oversight-advocacy-in-a-changing-environment/
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National Health Law Program @nhelp.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🚫 Medicaid work requirements don’t work. They add red tape, strip coverage, and harm people with disabilities, even with so-called exemptions. 📊 The truth: Medicaid helps people work. Work requirements don’t. 🎥By @machledtdc.bsky.social & @reprolawyer.bsky.social healthlaw.org/resource/web...
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National Health Law Program - Attorneys | National Health Law Program
Attorneys litigating in state & federal courts & policy advocates fighting to advance access to quality healthcare for low-income & underserved individuals.
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National Health Law Program @nhelp.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🚨@nbcnews.com's Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Sahil Kapur report that GOP's proposed Medicaid cuts could leave millions without coverage. Work requirements & stricter eligibility checks threaten access for millions - Doctors and patients fear worsening health outcomes. 📎 www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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'Thicket of red tape' for Medicaid in GOP bill sparks fears of coverage losses
Republicans are rallying around work requirements and stricter eligibility screenings for Medicaid. Doctors and critics warn they could strip away coverage for rightful enrollees.
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 14/05/2025
"This will only worsen the Medicaid medical debt crisis and force hospitals to provide even more uncompensated care," shared @repraulruizmd.bsky.social during today's hearing. We agree. This bill threatens our entire health care infrastructure, especially in communities already stretched thin.
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 14/05/2025
"These paperwork requirements won't stop ineligible people from getting Medicaid, it will strip away the coverage they depend on by design," shared @trahan.house.gov during today's hearing, speaking on work requirements. Work requirements create barriers & eligible ppl will be the ones who suffer.
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 14/05/2025
Medicaid expansion helps communities stay healthy and lowers the cost of care for everyone. When more people have coverage, families are stronger, hospitals stay open, and emergency rooms aren’t the only option for care. It’s good policy—and the smart thing to do.
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 13/05/2025
During today’s hearing, Rep. Palmer said, “People who deserve Medicaid won’t lose it.” The idea that only some deserve care is absurd. We all deserve access to care—period. Millions of eligible ppl are losing coverage because of red tape & broken systems. If we value care, we must fix the system.
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 13/05/2025
“No one says health care is too affordable. No one says it’s too accessible.” Thank you, @menendez.house.gov for reminding Congress of the obvious: We should be making it easier to get care — not terminating care for older adults in long-term care, people with disabilities, veterans, & caregivers.
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 13/05/2025
"Who does not need health care?!" Thank you @repgreglandsman.bsky.social for saying what so many of us are thinking. This bill draws a cruel line between who deserves care and who doesn’t. That’s not just bad policy—it’s dangerous.
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Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
You heard The People. NO CUTS TO MEDICAID!
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 12/03/2025
A9: 48 states have recently extended Medicaid for new moms and pregnant parents with low-incomes – extending health insurance from just 60 days to a full 12 months! Cuts to Medicaid pulls health insurance away from new parents and makes it harder for states to keep these new benefits. #WellnessWed
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 12/03/2025
A2: Medicaid is critical in ensuring that women receive preventive services like mammograms and cervical cancer screenings as well as family planning services. Women who get their coverage through Medicaid expansion also get the full range of #ACA preventive services. #WellnesWed
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 12/03/2025
A1a: For moms-to-be, it provides crucial care in a country with the highest maternal mortality rate among wealthy nations—care that helps close race and health inequities from pregnancy through postpartum. #WellnessWed
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 05/03/2025
🚨The recent #measles outbreak in Texas exposes systemic failures in public health. Rising misinformation & weakened #vaccine policies, promoted by Health Secretary RFK Jr., put our communities’ lives at risk. It's time for the public to be at the center of public health: commcat.io/3DlrJYF
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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 26/02/2025
A8: Millions of people across the country rely on Medicaid for their addiction treatment, overdose prevention, and recovery support, and Medicaid is the largest payor of substance use disorder treatment in the country. #WellnessWednesday #MedicaidMatters
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 06/02/2025
Take away our kids and grandparent’s Medicaid to give tax breaks to billionaires? NO F*#&ING WAY! LISTEN UP, CONGRESS: Families of every race and every place should have the freedom to get the healthcare we need. Call 866-426-2631. Tell Congress #HandsOffMedicaid
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
#Medicaid cuts have consistently made up much of the total cuts House GOP leaders have been considering. If new goal is $1.5T in spending cuts up from $300B, moderate Rs must push back against it and Freedom Caucus or #Medicaid will face even more draconian cuts. The $1.5T target is also a minimum.
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Kaylan Szafranski @kszafranski.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🗣️Tell Congress: You can't cut $2.3 trillion from Medicaid without hurting children, seniors in long-term care, people with disabilities, and people with low-income jobs. Our voice matters. Call your lawmaker now at 866-426-2631 and tell them: 🚨NO CUTS TO OUR HEALTH CARE 🚨
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Per Wired/TPM/NY Times, Musk engineers now have alarming access to both ends of the system for federal #Medicaid $ for states: (1) HHS/CMS payment portal system, the interface for states to request funding and get federal approval and (2) Treasury payment system that actually sends the $ to states.
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The White House press secretary tries to make it seem that states being blocked from accessing their federal #Medicaid $ was somehow just a technical glitch, rather than an intentional unlawful act that caused chaos over the last 24 hours.
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Louise Norris @louisenorris.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The 2025 poverty level numbers are out. States will start to use them by March/April to determine Medicaid eligibility. They'll be used next fall to determine 2026 Marketplace subsidy eligibility. Here's my summary of how FPL is used in health insurance: www.healthinsurance.org/glossary/fed...
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What is the federal poverty level (FPL)? | healthinsurance.org
The federal poverty level (FPL) - also referred to as the federal poverty guidelines – is used to determine eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP, and for premium subsidies and cost-sharing reductions in ...
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
After yesterday's meeting of House Energy and Commerce GOP to discuss #Medicaid cuts Rep. Griffith of VA told Politico that they want to get savings without harming people. But ALL of the cuts being considered would take away coverage/access. #healthpolicy subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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Kaylan Szafranski @kszafranski.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I'm so excited to discuss a topic near and dear to my heart- decolonizing data! Join this free webinar to hear me yap about the importance of centering community in data and how to leverage data in community-centered ways >>https://bit.ly/4fQNoFx
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Kaylan Szafranski @kszafranski.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
👀Love this piece from AR Democrat-Gazette lifting up the powerful Medicaid story collection work from our partners at AR Advocates for Children and Families... helping people turn lived experiences into advocacy 👏 >>https://edition.arkansasonline.com/article/281492166913720
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Kaylan Szafranski @kszafranski.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Meaningful access to care...and our idea of "good care"... must include prevention and post-discharge services, otherwise it equates to little more than a band-aid
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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Every line of this gave me chills. Porsha should be here today, with her two boys. My god.
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Drishti Pillai, PhD, MPH @drishp.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New brief by @kff.org discusses the status of current health-related lawsuits in key areas of health policy and how they could be impacted by the incoming Trump administration. Areas of focus include (among others) #ACA #DACA #abortion #genderaffirmingcare #Medicare www.kff.org/medicare/iss...
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How Pending Health-Related Lawsuits Could be Impacted by the Incoming Trump Administration | KFF
This brief provides an overview of current lawsuits in health policy including preventive services, abortion care, gender affirming care, Medicare drug price negotiations, nursing home staffing rules,...
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Kaylan Szafranski @kszafranski.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
@aorris.bsky.social and @sarahl202.bsky.social make it plain: tens of millions of families, friends, and neighbors would lose health care under Republican policy agendas... with these losses, we ALL lose. ❗Communities can't thrive when they aren't healthy ‼️Our health isn't a piggy bank for tax cuts
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Allison Orris @aorris.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Another possible threat to today’s record-low uninsurance? The incoming administration is reportedly exploring whether it can impound - or not spend - funds that Congress has provided in legislation. @centeronbudget.bsky.social FAQs explain why this is contrary to the Constitution: bit.ly/4g04BMW
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FAQs on Impoundment: Presidential Actions Are Constrained by Long-Standing Constitutional Restrictions | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The notion that the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is what restricts presidential authority to impound funds enacted by law is contrary to legal precedent — and to the Constitution.
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NCPSSM @ncpssm.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The GOP will revive the "terrible idea" of #Medicaid work requirements. "So what does that accomplish? It’s very effective at throwing eligible people out of Medicaid," writes LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik. READ HERE::: @hiltzikm.bsky.social www.latimes.com/business/sto... @latimes.com
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Column: GOP targets Medicaid with the return of a terrible idea
Imposing work requirements on Medicaid recipients didn't achieve anything the last time. So why are they being considered again by Trump's GOP?
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