I haven’t kept up with Last Week Tonight lately, but while scrolling through my YouTube feed this week, this video came up: John Oliver’s most recent story about Medicaid.
It’s a tough watch, focusing on specific issues of health care and government aid that were radically transformed during the past few years (a pandemic) and the last several years (the Trump administration and official Public Health Emergencies in general).
This is not my specific area of work, but what I do is adjacent to things like eligibility determination and the related “unwind” as clients are removed from enrollment.
Policy forbids me from expressing certain opinions in certain ways when it comes to department business. But in a general sense, and especially in light of Oliver’s latest reporting, I think it’s allowable to say stuff remains fucked up and bullshit.