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Amanda McAllister-Wallner (she/her)

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Executive Director at @healthaccess.bsky.social Fighting for universal, quality, affordable, and equitable health care for California’s 40 million consumers ✊

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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early
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Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care
Health care providers in Minnesota said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care.
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner (she/her) @thewallner.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Wtaf
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner (she/her) @thewallner.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This bums me out. How can the world keep spinning and we lose people to normal stuff at the same time we have to worry about ICE and people losing healthcare and and and? RIP Ms. O’Hara. Thank you for all the laughter
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Our vision for a healthier CA is incompatible w/ immigration enforcement that terrorizes communities, murders lawful protestors, & prevents our neighbors from getting care. We can’t abide business as usual while ICE runs rampant in our streets. bit.ly/3Z9Tn2d
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Health Access Statement on ICE
Health Access opposes the violent invasion of our cities and communities by ICE and other military and law enforcement
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"I called Blue Shield and asked why our premium was going up — from $540 to nearly $4000 a month. They said the [ACA enhanced premium] subsidies were going away, and the new [@coveredca.bsky.social] premiums reflect that... My health care now costs 3x more than my mortgage" — Chaz Franklin
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The Children's Partnership @kidspartnership.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
All children are our children. A child is a child. Attacks on children's health and well-being should continue to shock us and move us to action. This is Friday's front page from the The Minnesota Star Tribune. #KeepFamiliesTogether #ProtectChildren #KidsHealth #News
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
At last week's #FightForOurHealth rally our ED @thewallner.bsky.social pointed out, "HR1 was not only a healthcare cut, it was the largest redistribution of wealth in our nation's history," and urged state leaders to find solutions to protect CA's health care system. youtu.be/YX-kH_vFmuU?...
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Advocates rally at California Capitol for affordable healthcare
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Frost: For so long, the right wing has held up patriotism as a vibe, as an aesthetic. But patriotism is more than bald eagles and flags and beer. Patriotism is about loving the people who live in the damn country — every single one of them.
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The California LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network @calgbtqhealth.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Today we joined community leaders at a press conference responding to SCOTUS oral arguments on cases impacting trans youth in sports. Trans youth deserve safety, belonging, and the freedom to fully participate in public life. We’ll never stop fighting for the T in team 🏳️‍⚧️ Read: bit.ly/4bwHUB2
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner (she/her) @thewallner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
California State of the State thread. Just random musings...
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 07/01/2026
Homeland Security’s description of what happened and the narrative they’re pushing clearly doesn’t match up with the videos we’re all seeing. They’re asking people not to believe what we can all see with our own eyes. I’ve been in contact with DHS demanding more information.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 08/01/2026
We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner (she/her) @thewallner.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Let’s be friends on @thestorygraph.com - by far my most used social media. Read a lot of good books this year and a lot of bad ones.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 16/12/2025
The Senate has rejected extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits that help millions afford health insurance. Without action premiums are expected to rise sharply next year & make coverage unaffordable for many families. Working people shouldn’t have to struggle just to get the care they need.
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Breaking: Republicans in Congress have officially decided to let ACA subsidies expire at the end of this month. Their choice leaves millions with bleak options for the New Year: forego coverage, ration care, or gut their household budgets to afford the devastating increase.
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Families are already struggling to afford food and rent. Now Congress is letting health care costs skyrocket, too. Tell your representative: protect ACA subsidies; don’t let our premiums spike! Add your name: secure.everyaction.com/EItvSlch90ya...
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Tell Congress: Take Action NOW to Lower our Health Care Costs
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
Photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American disabled woman in a power chair. She is wearing an orange and black tiger-striped sweater, black pants, a bold red lip color, and a trach at her neck. In the background is a gray cement wall with greenery. (Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography)This is Alice’s friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice’s wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.

Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
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California Pan-Ethnic Health Network @cpehn.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
With federal health cuts looming, state policymakers must continue to hold the health industry accountable on costs, say CPEHN ED Kiran Savage-Sangwan & @healthaccess.bsky.social ED @thewallner.bsky.social in this @calmatters.org op-ed.
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
You might have heard of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” but have you heard of H.R. 1? 👻 Jump scare: they're the same. 😱 No matter what you call it, the impacts of this scary bad health policy will horrify you equally. 👹 Beware of the H.R. 1 monster and its many masks!
A two frame scooby doo meme. the top frame shows a masked monster with the text "Trump's big beautiful bill" over it. The bottom frame shows the monster's face without his mask beneath the text "H.R. 1" while Fred holds it smugly.A two frame scooby doo meme. the top frame shows a masked monster with the text "skyrocketing health care premiums" over it. The bottom frame shows the monster's face without his mask beneath the text "H.R. 1" while Fred holds it smugly.A two frame scooby doo meme. the top frame shows a masked monster with the text "Attacks on Gender Affirming Care" over it. The bottom frame shows the monster's face without his mask beneath the text "H.R. 1" while Fred holds it smugly.A two frame scooby doo meme. the top frame shows a masked monster with the text "De facto repeal of the ACA" over it. The bottom frame shows the monster's face without his mask beneath the text "H.R. 1" while Fred holds it smugly.
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Capitol Weekly @capitolweekly.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We sat down with @thewallner.bsky.social of @healthaccess.bsky.social, a consumer advocacy coalition that advocates for more accessible, equitable, affordable, quality health care for all Californians, to talk about the impact of impending federal budget cuts. capitolweekly.net/qa-health-ac...
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Q&A: Health Access Exec. Dir. Amanda McAllister-Wallner - Capitol Weekly
We sat down recently with Amanda McAllister-Wallner, Executive Director of Health Access California, a consumer advocacy coalition that advocates for more accessible, equitable, affordable, quality he...
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Real Californians are getting hit with a reported 97% increase in Covered California premiums. Families & older adults can't absorb these costs. Are your costs rising? Share your story—it's how we move decision-makers to act: secure.everyaction.com/SDZFaMRQjEG1...
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We're proud to support #Prop50, the Election Rigging Response Act. CA has led the way in expanding & advocating for health care access. But we’ve seen what 2 votes in Congress can do to dismantle care for millions. Vote #YesOn50 to protect our health care. health-access.org/health-acces...
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Health Access is YES on Proposition 50
As ballots are mailed throughout California and voting centers open, Health Access California, the statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition, announces its endorsement of Proposition 50, the E...
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Over 20 million people qualify for tax credits to make their health insurance affordable under the #AffordableCareAct: but the GOP wants to take those tax credits away.
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The #Health4All campaign has ensured coverage to over a million more Californians. Last week, our Steering Committee leaders met to discuss the challenges now facing our progress, and how to protect health care for our immigrant communities. We will keep fighting for #Health4All!
A diverse group of people representing the Health4All Campaign's steering committee stand in front of an indoor mural that says "Protect the ones you LOVE" hand painted on a blue background.
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
We’re at the annual Health Care conference hosted by @capitolweekly.bsky.social. Our @thewallner.bsky.social joined @jodihicks.bsky.social of @ppactionca.bsky.social, @mirandadz.bsky.social of @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social, & more to discuss the devastating impact of H.R. 1 on our health care access.
6 white women in suits on a panel with a blue and yellow UC step and repeat background
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2025
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 27/08/2025
We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most. Learn more:
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‘The Toxic Avenger’ Partners With Undue Medical Debt to Erase at Least $5 Million in Medical Debt
It’s the final week of marketing and promotion for The Toxic Avenger, and the teams here at Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting have decided to do something a little different. Rather than spending the re...
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Meet our sixth Executive Director: @thewallner.bsky.social! Amanda’s passion for health justice began as an LGBTQ advocate, and like the queer & trans elders before her, she’s not afraid of a fight. Hear how she plans to lead in this critical moment for CA’s health:
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner (she/her) @thewallner.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Was feeling like I needed something uplifting and pure after today’s vote so I turned on Planet Earth 3, which I’ve never seen. The first scene is a group of seals teaming up to chase off a great white shark. If that isn’t a metaphor right now, I don’t know what is youtu.be/ovBvGelWHIk?...
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Great White Shark Mobbed by Gang Of Seals | Planet Earth III | BBC Earth
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner (she/her) @thewallner.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The reconciliation language released by the Senate this week would cause millions of Californians to lose health care, endanger services at hospitals and clinics, gut protections for medical debt, and more. Our leaders must stand up and stop the big ugly betrayal that is this bill.
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Top 10 Reasons Why the Senate Finance Committee’s Reconciliation Bill Is Worse than the House-passed Bill Regarding Health Coverage
Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee recently released their draft of the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”, proposing to cut even more Medicaid funding than the House-passed bill (which i...
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
#CABudget leaders say they condemn Trump’s anti-immigrant violence, yet at the same time are ripping health care away from the community. #SpeakerRivas #ProTemMcGuire @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social: Put your 💸 where your 👄 is and fund the vision you say you believe in! NO CUTS! #Health4All
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
“Most of these [ #CAbudget ] savings come, not from the $100 premiums that people are paying, but from the fact that they know people won’t be able to pay $100 premiums and will just lose coverage,” our executive director, @thewallner.bsky.social said. @sacbee.com amp.sacbee.com/news/politic...
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Proposed premiums will push undocumented Californians off Medi-Cal, advocates say
Advocates warn that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to institute monthly premiums for some on Medi-Cal will restrict health care access.
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TC @tcustodis.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be gay do crow stuff #pridemonth #pridecrows
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JohnnytheCook @johnnythecook.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Ohio would lose far more than it saves by ending #Medicaid expansion. Just $116M in net savings vs. $42B in lost federal funds, 435K more uninsured, and over $1.1B in lost tax revenue. The real state cost? Health, jobs, and economic stability www.healthpolicyohio.org/our-work/pub...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.
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California Budget & Policy Center @calbudgetcenter.org · 22/05/2025
This morning, every Republican representative from California voted Yes on the House’s budget reconciliation package. Let’s be clear: they voted to take health care and food assistance away from millions of vulnerable Californians. calbudgetcenter.org/resources/ho...
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How Republican-Led Budget Cuts Could Impact Californians in Every Congressional District
Proposed Republican budget cuts could impact health care, housing, and economic security for Californians in every congressional district.
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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The original House bill would have led to about 10 million more uninsured people, according to CBO. The amended version that passed would lead to more people losing health insurance. If this bill gets enacted, it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for health care ever.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
House Republicans have voted to advance Trump's budget bill. This bill will: —Increase the national debt —Throw millions off their health care with Medicaid cuts —Cut taxes for billionaires —Raise costs for the poorest Americans
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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 22/05/2025
"Let's call this what it is—theft."
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'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History | Common Dreams
"The people stealing from Americans are not folks with tattoos and hoodies—it's people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins, sitting in this Capitol right now," said Rep. Maxwell Frost.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 22/05/2025
To understand what the GOP is forcing through at midnight: •Gutting $880 billion from Medicaid •Gutting $500 billion from Medicare •Gutting funding for SNAP (food assistance) •Gutting clean energy protections, which will also cost 400,000 jobs 1/2
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
New from CBO: the Republican budget reconciliation plan would hurt the poorest Americans while helping the richest Americans
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-05/61422-Reconciliation-Distributional-Analysis.pdf
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner (she/her) @thewallner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Today’s amendments took a bad bill and made it worse. The amendments, which were first put in writing just a few hours ago. Which we can be certain most members have not read. It’s despicable.
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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Here’s a huge part of the problem…this is as much a health care bill as it is a tax and immigration bill—and it should be reported as such. They’re cutting upwards of $1 trillion from the ACA and Medicaid with more than 10m losing insurance — and this framing gives them a pass on that deviation.
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner (she/her) @thewallner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Dear friends, please don’t play a drinking game where you take a shot every time Republicans say “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act”.
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner (she/her) @thewallner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
A house divided. Morgan is watching the finale of Survivor I’m watching Republicans jam through a wildly unpopular bill to increase the deficit by trillions of dollars, give a handout to the wealthiest people in America, and slash health care, SNAP, and public benefits
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Amanda McAllister-Wallner (she/her) @thewallner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The rush is intentional - they would rather we didn't know the impacts of the legislation they're voting on overnight. There is no need to rush. The Memorial Day deadline is a fiction.
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Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @kamlager-dove.house.gov · 22/05/2025
Republicans are back at it again—trying to ram their Big Backstabbing Bill through the House under the cover of night.   At a time when Trump’s tariffs are raising costs, this bill will devastate working families.   Democrats will leave no procedures unturned & no stories untold.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 21/05/2025
🕐 It’s 1AM. Do you know where your Member of Congress is? 👀 They’re in the Rules Committee trying to sneak through a tax scam that guts Medicaid & school meals. Because when your plan is this toxic, you gotta pass it while everyone’s asleep. 📺 Watch live: seiu.co/3SJr5rZ
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Thread. 33 of 40 #Medicaid expansion states (+DC) will now face a 10 point cut in their expansion match rate under House GOP reconciliation bill. Latest language penalizes not only states using own funds to cover undocumented kids but also states covering legal immigrant kids/pregnant women (1/x)
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