Carmichaels Forum highlights the costs for federal cuts

Joe Angelelli takes the knowledge from a study of non -violent protests to the bottom: As soon as 3.5% of the population consistently appear against a problem, it flows.

A Thursday forum in Carmichaels, in which about 35 people about the potential effects of the proposed or recently proposed or recently announced or recently announced reductions from Medicaid to the veteran administration was one step towards this goal, he said.

“We all have to do it in our own community – have such things, continue to speak, continue to appear,” said Angelelli, chairman of the Southwestern Pennsylvania partnership for aging. “I think we can do that, and there we will build the relationships for what comes next.”

The SWPAA has organized a panel discussion with the United Mine Workers of America and the American Federation of Government.

Angelelli was accompanied by the Panel of Chuck Knisell, the international Vice President of District 2 by Umwa, and Phil Glover, the National Vice President of District 3 of AFGE.

Almost 10,000 inhabitants of Greene County use a form of medicaid coverage, said Angelelli, including behavioral health care, in-home supply or community-approval centers.

The proposed budget of the Trump administration would reduce Medicaid by almost $ 800 million and impose new requirements in which work, education or service in the amount of 80 hours per month would have been classified by 80 hours a month.

The additional complications would prevent people from looking for care they need, said Angelelli. And cuts could also endanger jobs and services that are bound by this financing.

A combined financing of medicaid financial means of $ 14.6 million went home in Greene County in 2022 and in the community-based services and nursing homes in Greene County.

Almost 250 inhabitants receive these house and community services, and almost 150 rely on medical payments for their care care.

“We know that taking Medicaid reporting of people violates their health for all the obvious reasons,” said Angelelli. “It damages the health of the entire community, because if people lose the cover of Medicaid, they will still end up in the emergency room, receive care, delay the care.”

When Knisell examines the cuts for the security programs and research results, almost 60 years of progress is reversed.

An explosion from 1968 in the Farmington mine in West Virginia, in which 68 people were killed, led to more protection for security, inspections and health of the workers.

Knisell attributes regular mining inspections through the organization for health security, which are saved by life with the ability to quote mines for violations. The Department of Government Efficiency has planned dozens of MSHA offices for closure, including the one in Waynesburg, which may be more difficult to find.

Reasons at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health interpreted the employees in Morgantown, W.VA., who are responsible for researching the black lungs and the miners affected by the demonstrations that were necessary for the acquisition of health performance. These jobs were used again on Tuesday after a federal judge decided in favor of a miner in West Virginia who had filed a lawsuit against the movements.

Discharges in a Niosh facility near Pittsburgh, which are responsible for the national certification of respiratory protection products, are still at their destination.

“Hundreds of thousands of coal people died (on black lungs),” said Knisell. “Acts have been set up to slow this way. Our death rates went far down. If we continue this way of destruction, we will return to the place where we were.”

The speed and the arbitrary nature of some of the cuts were due to the “20-year-old coder” at Masing, said Glover. He emphasized cases of cutting chemotherapy for veterans that were cut after the cleaning costs registered by the Doge members that were necessary

Reasures such as the 83,000 employees planned in Veterans Affairs risk that the recent agreements that were largely non -partisan traces, said Glover. The PACT Act opened VA advantages in 2022 to those who were exposed to fire pits, agent orange and other toxic substances.

“From 2022 we won around 61,000 employees somewhere,” he said. “A million veterans have registered under pact. I don't think 60,000 people who help this millions to ask too much.”

Angelelli asked the people in the crowd on Thursday to contact their officials in Pennsylvania in order to either vote against the cuts at the federal level or to be willing to move these cuts on site.

Glover asked the residents to contact us, Guy Reschenthaler, the representative of the region in the congress. His district administrator had told him that this could change in a hurry.

“It works,” he said. “The pressure builds up in the Senate.

Marianne Gideon, former 46-year-old employee of the Centerville Clinics in the counties Fayette, Greene and Washington, is now on his board. She came to the Thursday forum to learn more about the cuts. Although you have not yet influenced the clinic's services, she tries to try enough uncertainty.

“All things we are talking about affects the centers' clinics and all community clinics in the USA,” she said. “Medicare is like a elixir of life.”