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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"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,
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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.
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"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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Nursing Homes filled with Alzheimers patient that
#Medicaid helps pay for. Literacy tests. LetTheLawsuitsBegin#MotherOfADisabledDaughter -
For all the disabled children that
#Medicaid helps pay for their healthcare. Literacy tests.#LetTheLawsuitsBegin#MotherOfADisabledDaughter
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Can we get the President to take a literacy test? Asking for our species
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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
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Actually they are adding in a copay. And you lose coverage if you can't pay it
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"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.
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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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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 …)
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*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.
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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%.
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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?
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I mean, I'm not disagreeing. I'm saying the tweet is misleading. I think all of this is insane.
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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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