The-14Nov 26
Reconciliation without accountability is just talk — especially when it comes to Indigenous health
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Canada #Reconciliation #HealthInequity #Accountability #TRC #Justice #Colonialism #IndigenousHealth #The14 #Health
https://the-14.com/reconciliation-without-accountability-is-just-talk-especially-when-it-comes-to-indigenous-health/
Reconciliation without accountability is just talk — especially when it comes to Indigenous health | The-14

Canada’s auditor general finds minimal progress in First Nations health, showing reconciliation without accountability leaves systemic inequities intact.

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Show threadNonilexNov 10

Update

#Trump admin CANNOT withhold full #funding for #food #aid, US appeals court rules

A federal appeals court late on Sunday allowed a judge's order to stand that directs Trump's admin to FULLY fund this month's #SNAP benefits for 42 million #LowIncome Americans during the ongoing US government shutdown.

#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Aristocracy #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #FoodStamps #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cannot-withhold-4-billion-food-aid-us-appeals-court-rules-2025-11-10/

NonilexNov 8

…there ain’t no rest for the wicked…

#SCOTUS granted #Trump *emergency* appeal to temporarily block a #CourtOrder to FULLY fund #SNAP #food #aid payments amid the government #shutdown.

#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Aristocracy #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #Aporophobia #FoodStamps #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #HealthInequity #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-07-SNAP+update

Supreme Court issues order to block full SNAP payments

The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown. A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But the administration asked an appeals court to suspend any court orders requiring it to spend more money than is available in a contingency fund. After the appeals court declined to immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause.

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Jan R. BoehnkeJul 7, 2025

This #SysReview suggests that medical #crowdfunding is less a tool for mitigating health disparities, but rather reproduces existing #HealthInequity.

Individuals who face structural barriers to healthcare access often have the greatest financial need but the least capacity to launch successful campaigns.

https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-025-02543-x

#GlobalHealth

Health inequities in medical crowdfunding: a systematic review - International Journal for Equity in Health

Background Medical crowdfunding has emerged as a popular strategy to offset healthcare expenses in contexts of limited insurance coverage. While often framed as a democratizing and accessible financial tool, growing evidence indicates that success is unevenly distributed, raising concerns about its role in exacerbating health inequities. Methods A systematic review was conducted in accordance with PRISMA guidelines, drawing from PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus. Of 1,462 screened records, 33 studies met the inclusion criteria. Guided by the PROGRESS framework, we extracted data on socioeconomic determinants of health disparities. An inductive content analysis was employed to identify how equity was assessed across studies. Results We identified three key categories of metrics used to assess equity in medical crowdfunding: funding outcomes, campaign visibility, and donor participation. Across these domains, substantial disparities were observed. Campaigns in rural or economically disadvantaged areas tended to have lower success rates. Racial and ethnic inequities were consistently documented, with non-white individuals receiving fewer and smaller donations than white counterparts. Gender disparities were complex, especially in transgender-related campaigns. Socioeconomic status and educational attainment were significantly associated with outcomes, accompanied by differences in access to social capital and the ability to craft persuasive narratives. In regions with high medical debt or limited insurance coverage, more crowdfunding campaigns appeared, but with lower overall success. These inequities were shaped and reinforced by platform algorithms and design features that privileged users with preexisting advantages. Conclusions Rather than serving as a corrective to healthcare access gaps, medical crowdfunding often reflects and reinforces structural inequities. These findings challenge its portrayal as an equitable financing solution and highlight the need for policy interventions to ensure fairer access to healthcare resources.

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Show threadNonilexJun 3, 2025

Instead, the argument relies on a series of misunderstandings [#disinformation] & non sequiturs to obscure the obvious fact that cutting #Medicaid would make #poor people sicker & more likely to die.

#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics

Show threadNonilexJun 3, 2025

The timing is even more remarkable, given that this wondrous solution has come along at precisely the moment when congressional #Republicans are desperate for budget savings to partially offset the costs of a regressive & fiscally irresponsible tax cut.

Sadly [if unsurprisingly], a close reading of WSJ’s editorial reveals that no such miracle is in the offing.

#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics

Show threadNonilexJun 3, 2025

Last week, the WSJ editorial page published an editorial headlined “The Medicaid Scare Campaign.” The thesis is that the #Medicaid cuts would “improve healthcare by expanding private insurance options, which provide better access & health outcomes than Medicaid.”

This would be, as they say, huge if true: The #GOP has found a way to give #LowIncome Americans better #healthcare while saving hundreds of billions in taxpayer money.

#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics

Show threadNonilexJun 3, 2025

#JoniErnst later doubled down on her
comment on social media, attempting to equate concern that #Medicaid cuts could harm people with believing in the tooth fairy.

Ofcls such as #RussVought & Ernst have not provided a detailed explanation of their blithe assurances. But there is one center of conservative thought that has attempted to defend these claims: the WSJ editorial page.

#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics

Show threadNonilexJun 3, 2025

As voluminous research literature shows, #WorkRequirements achieve savings by implementing burdensome paperwork obligations that mostly take #Medicaid from eligible beneficiaries, not 25-yr-old guys who prefer playing video games to getting a job.

#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics

Show threadNonilexJun 3, 2025

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that, by imposing #Medicaid #WorkRequirements, the bill would eventually increase the #uninsured population by at least 8.6M. At first, #Republicans tried to defend this outcome on the grounds that it would affect only lazy people who refuse to work. This is clearly untrue, however.

#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics