Sarah Huckabee Sanders has a message for vulnerable people seeking healthcare in Arkansas: tough.
The politico nepo baby’s latest act of cruelty came this week, when she rejected expanding postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to 12 months. States are required to provide post-pregnancy Medicaid coverage for 60 days, but nothing more.
Once again, Sanders is providing her constituents with the least protection possible.
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The gay-hating governor’s aversion to extending post-pregnancy Medicaid coverage is especially noteworthy, because Arkansas had the highest known rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. from 2018 to 2020, according to the CDC.
When explaining her rational, Sanders said the state must do a better job of transitioning new parents to other coverage once their Medicaid runs out, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. She didn’t specify what that other coverage would be, however.
The follow up question should have been "what other coverage?"
— Joseph (@JJTrey) February 22, 2024
Expecting working poor mothers to pay out of pocket for medical coverage is a foolish assumption. They'll just go without medical service.
Sanders’ apparent distaste for those on Medicaid is well-established. Last year, Arkansas abruptly removed more than 400,000 people from the Medicaid roles.
With the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos can be considered “extrauterine children” under state law, the lack of reproductive healthcare in many Southern states continues to dominate political discourse. Arkansas is one of 14 states in the country where abortion is banned entirely.
While Sanders claims to be pro-life, she doesn’t show much regard for children, or their parents, once pregnancies are complete. One of her signature achievements last year was rolling back child labor laws: work permits are no longer required for kids under 16.
LGBTQ+ kids in particular are under attack in the Natural State. Arkansas passed the first ban on gender-affirming care for minors in the country, though a federal judge struck down the ruling last June. Undeterred, Sanders’ administration is appealing the ruling.
Since taking office, Sanders has been laser-focused on attacking her state’s LGBTQ+ population. She signed her own “Don’t Say Gay” bill and appointed Jacob Oliva, the man responsible for crafting the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Florida, to lead Arkansas’ education department.
In addition, she’s signed a law barring transgender teachers and students from using school bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identities. Gender-neutral terms, such as “Latinx,” are no longer permitted to appear on state documents as well.
Despite Sanders’ apparent efforts to legislate her queer constitutions out of existence, Arkansas’ LGBTQ+ population continues to grow. About 5.3% of Arkansas adults identify as LGBTQ+, which is roughly in line with the national average of 5.5%.
Those numbers are even greater among 18-24 year olds. Nearly 15% of young adults in Arkansas identify as LGBTQ+, along with 8.8% of 25-34 year olds.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, Arkansas is one of 23 states with the lowest designation of “high priority to achieve basic equality.” The state doesn’t have a hate-crime law, nor does it prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing or employment.
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While Arkansas is far from the only red state to deny basic protections to LGBTQ+ people or suitable medical care for mothers in need, it’s one of the most egregious violators in the country. Some of Arkansas’ 75 counties lack hospitals entirely, while only 35 hospitals in the state offer labor and delivery units.
Relatedly, Arkansas has the third highest infant mortality rate in the country. It’s one of only three states that does not offer postpartum Medicaid coverage for a full year.
But hey, at least SHS is working on important matters. She blew up a dam this week, and got to post #DrainTheSwamp on social media.
#HerPoorConstituents.
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Fenwick22
Once a cvnt, always a cvnt.
m
Definitely 100% nepo qunt
abfab
An OBGYN? Seriously.
Property records and the “sold” sign in front of the Sanders family’s former Pleasant Valley home indicate they’re firmly ensconced in the Governor’s Mansion.
The 4,746-square-foot house at 187 Pleasant Valley Drive was sold to Sharai and Evan Amaya on June 30 for $815,000. Some Googling indicates Dr. Sharai Amaya is an OBGYN, and her husband Evan Amaya is an engineer or pilot.
-aktimes
abfab
Baron Wiseman
Want To Be An Actor?
Now is your chance if you live in the Phoenix area.
Per a posted Craigslist ad:
“Actors needed (Phoenix Convention Center)
Actors/help needed for event tomorrow from 2-11pm
$15 per hour
Duties include protest activity and holding signs that are anti-Trump
Minorities welcome and needed!
Looking to fill about 500 spots.”
Yes, you can be a fake anti-Trump protest actor and get some of that (most likely) George Soros money. The left-wing manufactures “protests” trying to pass them off as “grass roots activism” when in fact, they are ACTORS pretending to be anti-Trump.
inbama
I pointed out to him that he had fallen for a hoax, provided a source, and he gracefully apologized.
So why are you reposting this fake news?
abfab
Easy answer? He’s always been unbelievable. We can leave it at that.
abfab
(need a good laugh people?)
inbama’s words to the wise
This is an old hoax that you’re spreading, Baron Wiseman
You know, it is possible to be an HONEST conservative.
Mister P
Republicans hate children. They love fetuses and embryos.
As Marge says they should be disrobed.
still_onthemark
Does Arkansas have any frozen children like in Alabama? Think of the children!!! SAVE THE FROZEN CHILDREN!!!
abfab
Inbama seems frozen….so yes, Alabama DOES have frozen children.
LumpyPillows
Why would any pro-life person not support medical care for mothers? This makes no sense.
dbmcvey
Because they’re not really pro-life, they’re pro-forced labor.
still_onthemark
Because Sarah thinks all women who are poor are sluts, and sluts must be punished for having sex in the first place. (A few of my relatives “think” this way too!)
LumpyPillows
So, in a nutshell, pro-life is really just anti-women. Sadly, makes sense.
Kangol2
As dbmcvey says, they’re not “pro life,” they’re pro-forced birth, pro-power, and pro-domination. Why are so many “pro-life” people so indifferent about public executions in the US (as opposed to Iran, say), or war-mongering and the over 1 million dead from Covid-19 or the 39,000 dead Palestinians in Gaza, or the numerous American women dying in childbirth and after giving birth despite the US being the biggest spender on health care per capita of any OECD country? Huckabeast Sanders’ state is in bad shape on this front.
Also, why are so many “pro-life” GOP politicians balking at or blocking funding for the Child Tax Credit, which was part of the 2021 American Rescue Plan and singlehandedly and in rapid fashion lifted millions of US children out of poverty? Don’t they care about these American lives? Doesn’t Huckabeast Sanders? The child poverty rate in Arkansas was 22% in 2022, according to the US Census Bureau and American Community Survey.
Mister P
I am so sick of these repugnant right wing nuts driving this country to hell.
Mr.Gavin Elster
Old timers here, in Hollywood, use to, in some kind of Dust Bowl era-speak, call an intact foreskin “Arkansas luggage. ” Seeing SHS’s face kind of reminds me of a puffy, wrinkled, smelly overhang. The nice thing about a real U/C deal is, you can choose to circumcise it.
James
Huckabee sanders, moron from hell.
abfab
When Miss Sarah isn’t busy inhaling fast foot/battery chickens at Po Folks and Chik Fil Aye she can be found down the road at one of her local KFC’S knocking back……………….this:
KFC Drops ‘Chizza’ Nationwide Which Combines Pizza and Fried Chicken for an ‘Unexpected Mashup’! she doctors it up by adding a generous helping of mashed potatoes.
abfab
The south’s bragging rights.
”The World’s Chicken Eatin’ Record
Last Year, Seth Aiken set a “World’s Chicken Eatin’ Record” at the PoFolks in Panama City, Florida. He ate 9 drumsticks, 12 breasts, 11 thighs and 22 wings all at one meal, breaking the previous record set by PoFolks Operating Partner Bobby Hicks. Since then, all Seth has done is cackle and eat a little corn. His wife reckons how she ought to take him to the doctor, but she says she needs the eggs…
If all the politicians in the world were laid end to end, there sure would be a lot of lyers.”
inbama
Where was delightful Donald Trump born?
Alabama?
South Carolina?
New York, NY?
sickofthehate
Got a great idea for Alabama. If the law says fetuses are children, someone needs to try claiming them as dependents. Make the state pay for their stupidity.