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Surgeon, Writer, Researcher, Dilettante. https://www.ariadnelabs.org/  http://www.lifebox.org/ 

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    Atul Gawande‏Verified account @Atul_Gawande Jan 13

    Atul Gawande Retweeted Andy Slavitt

    Kentucky is literally reintroducing literacy tests for people to get coverage if they fail their work requirement. Literacy tests. (And hey, never mind that lack of literacy may have been a reflection of undiagnosed medical issues and a reason they don’t have a job.)https://twitter.com/aslavitt/status/951904618103140353 …

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    Andy SlavittVerified account @ASlavitt
    Let’s start here in reviewing the new program. There’s a “literacy” provision. If you don’t work enough hours and lose coverage, you can get to see a doctor again if you can pass a state literacy course about health or money. 😕2/ pic.twitter.com/RooWcagCOL
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      1. Atul Gawande‏Verified account @Atul_Gawande Jan 13

        I meant introducing. I couldn’t help be remember, however, when literacy tests were last used — to keep black people from being able to register to vote. Now it is just as bad — to keep people from getting treatment for sickness.

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      2. TheHealthPolicyGroup‏ @healthpolicygrp Jan 13
        Replying to @Atul_Gawande

        "We had teachers, we had high school principals, we had people teaching in colleges and university in Tuskegee, Alabama. But they were told they failed the so-called literacy test [each time they attempted to register to vote]." ~John Lewis, @RepJohnLewis #sdoh #HumanRights

        2 replies 20 retweets 46 likes
      3. Ivor Horn‏ @DrIvorHorn Jan 14
        Replying to @healthpolicygrp @Atul_Gawande @repjohnlewis

        My 83 year old mother, a teacher, tells the story of having to take the test in Mississippi to register to vote. Pages of questions on legal size note paper.

        1 reply 3 retweets 4 likes
      4. TheHealthPolicyGroup‏ @healthpolicygrp Jan 14
        Replying to @DrIvorHorn @Atul_Gawande @repjohnlewis

        "So long as I do not firmly & irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind-it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing.. laws I.. helped to enact-I can only submit to the edict of others"~Dr Martin Luther King

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      2. Donna In Lakeland FL‏ @SouthernJewel Jan 13
        Replying to @Atul_Gawande

        Nursing Homes filled with Alzheimers patient that #Medicaid helps pay for. Literacy tests. LetTheLawsuitsBegin #MotherOfADisabledDaughter

        2 replies 9 retweets 29 likes
      3. Donna In Lakeland FL‏ @SouthernJewel Jan 13
        Replying to @SouthernJewel @Atul_Gawande

        For all the disabled children that #Medicaid helps pay for their healthcare. Literacy tests. #LetTheLawsuitsBegin #MotherOfADisabledDaughter

        0 replies 2 retweets 10 likes
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      2. Josh Rubin, MD  💉‏ @DrSandman11 Jan 13
        Replying to @Atul_Gawande

        Can we get the President to take a literacy test? Asking for our species

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      2. Shuan Rose 🇯🇲 🌎 🇺🇸‏ @shmr50 Jan 13
        Replying to @Atul_Gawande

        Next up they will have to pay a Medicaid tax, similar to the poll tax. A good old Jim Crow tactic repurposed for another goal

        1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes
      3. Night Mists  🌜 🍁 🌻 🌃 🌻 🍁 🌛‏ @Nitemists Jan 13
        Replying to @shmr50 @Atul_Gawande

        Actually they are adding in a copay. And you lose coverage if you can't pay it

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      2. WigglyButtz 🐶 🐕‏ @Wigglybuttz Jan 13
        Replying to @Atul_Gawande @tee62

        "Literacy test" is a way to get around the no official language test. It'll be interesting if those who fail who graduated from HS in KY will receive a financial award settlement from the state department of education.

        1 reply 4 retweets 17 likes
      3. cackymn‏ @cackymn Jan 13
        Replying to @Wigglybuttz @Atul_Gawande @tee62

        Spot on. I immediately thought they're looking for non-English speakers. Whatever they are doing, literacy has nothing to do with deserving health-care. I'm sure you don't have to take a test if you have $.

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      2. John‏ @idle_sys Jan 13
        Replying to @Atul_Gawande

        this bill is fucked, but when I read literacy in your tweet, it implied literacy like the voting test/ability to read. This law is not talking about that but financial literacy and health literacy (heard of the first, the second is https://health.gov/communication/literacy/quickguide/factsbasic.htm …)

        1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
      3. John‏ @idle_sys Jan 13
        Replying to @idle_sys @Atul_Gawande

        *AND* it's not a test, it's a course. You have to take financial literacy courses to declare bankruptcy in the US. So tweet is hella misleading.

        1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
      4. John‏ @idle_sys Jan 13
        Replying to @idle_sys @Atul_Gawande

        BUT, to overshadow this - the law is fucked anyway. Requiring someone to work to get medicaid benefits is just another example of the GOP's attack on anyone not in the top 20%.

        1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
      5. Lynn Novak‏ @MissM4rple Jan 13
        Replying to @idle_sys @Atul_Gawande

        Having to take a course on health literacy before you can get healthcare is insane. You’re sick but can’t get care until you take a class?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. John‏ @idle_sys Jan 13
        Replying to @MissM4rple @Atul_Gawande

        I mean, I'm not disagreeing. I'm saying the tweet is misleading. I think all of this is insane.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Podom‏ @podom1800 Jan 13
        Replying to @Atul_Gawande

        There is a literacy test, a work requirementa co-pay AND a six month lock out if you fail to pay/work/meet some other requirements. People are going to die AND hospitals will be bankrupt by over use of the ER by the uninsured. Welcome to the middle ages KY

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