Trump administration blocks states from using Medicaid to respond to coronavirus crisis

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WASHINGTON — 

 

Despite mounting pleas from California and other states, the Trump administration isn’t allowing states to use Medicaid more freely to respond to the coronavirus crisis by expanding medical services.

 

In previous emergencies, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the H1N1 flu outbreak, both Republican and Democratic administrations loosened Medicaid rules to empower states to meet surging needs. 

 

But months into the current global disease outbreak, the White House and senior federal health officials haven’t taken the necessary steps to give states simple pathways to fully leverage the mammoth safety net program to prevent a wider epidemic.

 

 

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-13/trump-administration-blocks-states-use-medicaid-respond-coronavirus-crisis

[90DayFinancier 910]

21 minutes ago, Poseidon1212 said:

 

 

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-13/trump-administration-blocks-states-use-medicaid-respond-coronavirus-crisis

Yes, you have a National Emergency, meaning an emerging crisis needs to be addressed, and it needs to be declared to mobilize the right resources. This is not the flu.

Edited March 13, 2020 by 90DayFinancier

[2018JNJ 141]

22 minutes ago, Poseidon1212 said:

 

 

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-13/trump-administration-blocks-states-use-medicaid-respond-coronavirus-crisis

How many months did it take the previous administration to respond to the outbreak in 2009?

How many innocent people died before "he?" decided to decided to declare an emergency?

I'm sure you were similarly outraged then and tried to vote him out the following election...right??

 

jj

[90DayFinancier 910]

 

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• There were more than 60 million cases of swine flu in the United States during 2009 and 2010.

• The Obama administration responded with two emergency declarations, triggering billions in spending and other public health responses.

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Asked about reassuring Americans about the coronavirus, President Donald Trump downplayed the number of people stricken, then went on the attack.

Without mentioning President Barack Obama, Trump criticized the Obama’s administration response to another outbreak — H1N1, commonly known as swine flu.

Trump made the attack during an interview on March 4, 2020, with Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity:

Hannity: "You have said that you are evaluating (the coronavirus) on a daily basis. ... What are we prepared as a country to do to keep our citizens safe?"

Trump: "Well, I just say that it's, you know, a very, very small number in this country. And we're going to try and keep it that way as much as possible. I will say, though, the H1N1 — that was swine flu, commonly referred to as swine flu — and that went from around April of '09 to April of '10, where there were 60 million cases of swine flu. And over — actually, it's over 13,000. I think you might have said 17—. I had heard it was 13—, but a lot of — a lot of deaths. And they didn't do anything about it."

We wanted to fact-check Trump’s claim that the Obama administration "didn't do anything" as millions of swine flu cases mounted.

The Trump campaign didn’t respond to our requests for information.

Swine flu outbreak

The H1N1 influenza virus was discovered in the United States in the spring of 2009 and spread around the world. 

It was originally referred to as "swine flu" because many genes in the virus were similar to influenza viruses that normally occur in pigs in North America.

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From April 12, 2009, to April 10, 2010, in the United States, there were 60.8 million cases of swine flu, as well as 274,304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated.

Obama’s acting director of health and human services declared H1N1 a public health emergency on April 26, 2009. That was when the United States had only 20 confirmed cases of H1N1 and no deaths.

Two days later, the administration made an initial funding request for H1N1 to Congress. Eventually $7.65 billion was allocated for a vaccine and other measures.

On Oct. 24, 2009, six months after his administration declared H1N1 a public health emergency, Obama declared it a national emergency. 

By then, H1N1 had claimed more than 1,000 American lives, according to the CDC.

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43 minutes ago, 2018JNJ said:

How many months did it take the previous administration to respond to the outbreak in 2009?

How many innocent people died before "he?" decided to decided to declare an emergency?

I'm sure you were similarly outraged then and tried to vote him out the following election...right??

 

jj

As @90DayFinancier tried to point out; your questions are answered here: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/06/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-saying-barack-obama-did-nothing/

 

But if it's too much effort for you, let's go through it shall we?

 

46 minutes ago, 2018JNJ said:

How many months did it take the previous administration to respond to the outbreak in 2009?

Let's see shall we.

 

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The H1N1 influenza virus was discovered in the United States in the spring of 2009 and spread around the world. 

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It was serious. From April 12, 2009, to April 10, 2010, in the United States, there were 60.8 million cases of swine flu, 274,304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated.

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Obama’s acting director of health and human services declared H1N1 a public health emergency on April 26, 2009.

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H1N1 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on June 11, 2009.

In other words, the Obama administration’s public health emergency declaration came more than six weeks before the pandemic designation.

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So to answer your question it took 0 months before the previous administration responded to the outbreak in 2009. It was a matter of weeks (depending on your definition somewhere between 1 week and 2 weeks). 

 

 

54 minutes ago, 2018JNJ said:

How many innocent people died before "he?" decided to decided to declare an emergency?

Let's see.

 

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Obama’s acting director of health and human services declared H1N1 a public health emergency on April 26, 2009.

That was when only 20 cases of H1N1 — and no deaths — around the country had been confirmed. 

(Emphasis mine)

 

The answer to your question is: 0 people died (innocent or otherwise). 

 

56 minutes ago, 2018JNJ said:

I'm sure you were similarly outraged then and tried to vote him out the following election...right??

I was and still am very outraged about a lot Obama and his administration did, you make the assumption I'm a fan of Obama even though I am not. I consider him a war criminal amongst other things, not everyone who criticises Trump's actions is a fan of Obama. As for voting him out, I was and still am not eligible to vote, so no. Not that I would've voted him out though, I principally vote in favour of people, not against people. Not that any of this matters, it's just another form of whataboutism. Just because a previous president did something wrong (which isn't even the case) doesn't make the current one immune to criticism.  

 

Also, to contrast things even more (since it's literally the topic of the article):

 

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The national emergency declaration allowed the federal government to temporarily waive or modify requirements of the Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance programs. It also permitted doctors and hospitals to bypass certain requirements as they responded to H1N1.

 

[Orangesapples 1,954]

I was just about to post this. The incompetence is staggering. People want to get tested and they're not approved. It's a shame. Trump has been exposed to the virus himself. I'm sure we will never know when he tests positive, he will never ever admit it. 

 

I'm so sick of everyone comparing Trump to Obama. Why do you think that a former president's supposed incompetence excuses the current president's incompetence? 

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Funny, people in Canada who "want to be tested" can't just "get tested". They need to call 811 here, wait 3-6 hours on hold, and have a range of symptoms to justify being tested. That call is made by the nurses on the line. Then they get sent to a place (either that day or the next) that does testing for the Wuhan virus. 

 

And "competent" PM Trudeau couldn't even stop his own wife from getting the virus, and he's in isolation now himself.

 

But orange man bad.

 

This is just comical.

Edited March 13, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[Orangesapples 1,954]

6 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Funny, people in Canada who "want to be tested" can't just "get tested". They need to call 811 here, wait 3-6 hours on hold, and have a range of symptoms to justify being tested. That call is made by the nurses on the line. Then they get sent to a place (either that day or the next) that does testing for the Wuhan virus. 

 

And "competent" PM Trudeau couldn't even stop his own wife from getting the virus, and he's in isolation now himself.

 

But orange man bad.

 

This is just comical.

I see, so if other people mishandled anything, it totally doesn't matter how incompetent the orange buffoon is. 

 

Trump has been in contact with confirmed coronavirus patients. There's a big likelihood he has the virus now after he's been exposed. But he would never ever admit it. 

[90DayFinancier 910]

Provinces start offering in-home testing for novel coronavirus

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-provinces-start-offering-in-home-testing-for-novel-coronavirus/

 

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

6 minutes ago, Orangesapples said:

I see, so if other people mishandled anything, it totally doesn't matter how incompetent the orange buffoon is. 

 

Trump has been in contact with confirmed coronavirus patients. There's a big likelihood he has the virus now after he's been exposed. But he would never ever admit it. 

Hint: It's not been "handled" anywhere. It's all damage control, everywhere.

 

But on the bright side, you diagnosed Trump with the Wuhan virus. Orange man bad.

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ahh..Politifact.  seriously?  Politifact?  What's next, WikiPedia??

 

From your "facts"...how long was it before the previous administration declared it a national emergency?

And how many people died as a result of inaction on that "man's?" part?

 

I don't recall everything being canceled for that.

 

But it's ok..we all know why that is.

 

In the end, it won't matter.

 

DJ Trump will still be President of the USA.

 

Hillary Clinton will never be.

 

And I'm better for it.

 

🙂

 

jj

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4 minutes ago, Orangesapples said:

I see, so if other people mishandled anything, it totally doesn't matter how incompetent the orange buffoon is. 

 

Trump has been in contact with confirmed coronavirus patients. There's a big likelihood he has the virus now after he's been exposed. But he would never ever admit it. 

 

   Many of my relatives live in Canada. It is hard to say how well anything was handled until after it's over, but from the conversations I've had, Canada is doing better than we are, and they are set up to do better going forward. 

 

   In the USA, our health secretary is a former lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry. The response to this outbreak is being led by someone who had to go home and pray before being able to come up with anything. That is a microcosm of what happened with our response to this situation. It's not surprising to see many in charge not knowing what to do. No further explanation is needed. They don't know what to do.

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

Being someone in Canada, I can tell you Canada is not "doing better". It's spreading here as well, despite efforts to contain it, largely because the government can't/won't take the measures truly needed to contain it. Trying to have people in "self isolation" was a joke to begin with, and they're still perpetuating it, meaning they've given up on containment a long time ago. So many of those people in "self isolation" were directly responsible for the spread.

 

The first case in Alberta, for example, was a woman in her 50s, getting off a ship, she was told to self isolate for two weeks, comes back, doesn't self isolate at all, goes around a bunch of people, causes it to be spread and causes places to be shut down. 

 

The identity of a health secretary is of zero importance, the kind of political targeting that's expected in the anti-Trump era, they wouldn't have stopped anything regardless of who's health secretary it was. 

[Steeleballz 7,550]

6 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Being someone in Canada, I can tell you Canada is not "doing better".

  

   I believe the death toll in Canada is at 1 as of today. They appear to be better off statistically at this point. We will see going forward. 

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2 hours ago, 2018JNJ said:

How many months did it take the previous administration to respond to the outbreak in 2009?

How many innocent people died before "he?" decided to decided to declare an emergency?

I'm sure you were similarly outraged then and tried to vote him out the following election...right??

 

jj

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