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The callousness of DHHS head Mary Mayhew | Beacon - 0 views

mainebeacon.com/sness-of-dhhs-head-mary-mayhew Mayhew mentally_ill cuts LePage DHHS Maine Florida
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  • Yet somehow she has become the standard bearer for the worst of Paul LePage’s agenda. It could have something to do with her many years of service to the hospital lobbying industry. Upon her appointment to her position at DHHS, she stated: “I believe I have a vision that is very much aligned with LePage’s.” The arch-conservative Heritage Policy Foundation agrees, and gave her an award in 2014 for her pioneering work destroying the social safety net.
  • She has been a fierce enforcer of the Governor’s obscene attacks on recipients of TANF (welfare) and SNAP (food stamps) benefits. They have painted a picture of these programs as fraud-addled, with widespread stealing and abuse among recipients. In reality, the evidence shows that welfare fraud is extremely rare.
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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary - 0 views

prospect.org/...mary-mary-quite-contrary Mayhew cuts health_care access Maine Florida
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  • After the passage of the Affordable Care Act, it was the only state in the Northeast that failed to expand Medicaid.
  • Maine quickly became a laboratory for the best methods to gut Medicaid, and Mainers its lab rats. About 25,000 Mainers were tossed off Medicaid in 2013 alone after the state implemented stricter eligibility rules overseen by Mayhew. Mayhew’s DHHS also applied for a federal waiver that would allow the state to implement not just work requirements for Medicaid, but force people to pay monthly premiums, and a $20 co-pay for “inappropriate emergency room use” and other indignities.
  • Hunger shot up. Maine now ranks third in the nation in the rate of its residents who experience hunger, behind Alabama and Louisiana.
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  • presided over a paring back of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and implementing work requirements for SNAP recipients.
  • Appalled by the state’s refusal to expand Medicaid eligibility, Mainers placed an initiative on the ballot that put Medicaid expansion to a vote, with the prospect of health care for an additional 80,000 people hanging in the balance.
  • Mary Mayhew has a history of misplaced priorities.”
  • The measure passed easily last year, but LePage did not budge, vetoed legislation to get expansion moving, and has kept stalling even after even after the Maine Supreme Court directed him to create an implementation plan. Not surprisingly, LePage is spending the waning days of his tenure going mano-a-mano with the state courts.
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Florida Medicaid Chief Mary Mayhew Tied to Record-Shredding Scandal | Miami New Times - 0 views

www.miaminewtimes.com/...ord-shredding-scandal-11047009 Mayhew record-shredding failure Maine Florida Iannelli
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  • Yesterday, New Times described a scathing 2017 federal audit stating that Mayhew's DHHS failed to investigate the deaths of 133 disabled Medicaid recipients and also did not report hundreds of cases of sexual assault of the disabled to law enforcement.
  • It is unclear whether DeSantis was aware of Mayhew's document-shredding or disabled-death scandals before he appointed her.
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Florida Medicaid Chief Mary Mayhew Hit for Disabled Deaths, Sexual Assaults in 2017 Aud... - 0 views

www.miaminewtimes.com/...ssaults-in-2017-audit-11046972 Mayhew disability sexual_abuse death Maine Florida Iannelli Miami_New_Times
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  • the federal government in 2017 issued a scathing audit that critics say should have driven Mayhew out of public life for good. In August of that year, the feds found that, under Mayhew's control, Maine failed to follow federal and state requirements for reporting and monitoring sexual assaults, suicides, and injuries of residents with disabilities.
  • The feds studied two years of hospital data in Maine and uncovered 243 allegations of sexual abuse among patients with disabilities. Only five cases were referred to the appropriate district attorney's office, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
  • "Therefore, Maine failed to demonstrate that it has a system to ensure the health, welfare, and safety of the 2,640 Medicaid beneficiaries with developmental disabilities covered by the Medicaid waiver," the federal government wrote.
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  • The feds then reviewed each of the 133 improperly investigated deaths and found that "9 of the 133 beneficiary deaths were unexplained, suspicious, and untimely, and corrective action could have been taken." T
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Our View: Mary Mayhew brings Maine failures to Washington - Portland Press Herald - 0 views

www.pressherald.com/...s-maine-failures-to-washington Mayhew Maine Medicaid budget truly_needy Florida
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  • If so, they would have seen this assessment from the Office of the Inspector General: “Maine failed to demonstrate that it has a system to ensure the health, welfare and safety of the 2,640 Medicaid beneficiaries with developmental disabilities.”
  • covered 2½ years of Mayhew’s tenure
  • it did not reflect well on her
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  • It’s clear now that Maine was sitting on a powder keg in 2011, when Paul LePage took office as governor and brought Mayhew with him. At just the wrong time, the two worked to cut MaineCare reimbursements for methadone, a proven anti-addiction treatment, and eliminate health care coverage for thousands of Mainers, including many of the young childless adults who got ensnared in the drug crisis and then couldn’t find or afford treatment.
  • Mayhew, too, led the charge to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, in the latter case stockpiling tens of millions of dollars in federal funding. She reduced or eliminated prescription drug coverage for thousands of seniors, and cut reimbursement rates for services for people with mental illness.
  • LePage and Mayhew were concerned only with trimming services and cutting budgets.
  • “truly needy,”
  • She said taking away assistance would force Mainers to be more self-sufficient, though most of those who were cut off faced other barriers to employment that Mayhew neither recognized nor helped lower. As a result, many of the poorest Mainers just ended up worse off, not closer to self-sufficiency.
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Mary Mayhew, who opposed Medicaid expansion in Maine, named to head nation's Medicaid p... - 0 views

www.pressherald.com/...-hired-by-trump-administration Mayhew Medicaid Maine DeSantis appointment health Florida
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    "POLITICS Posted October 15, 2018 Updated October 16, 2018 INCREASE FONT SIZE Mary Mayhew, who opposed Medicaid expansion in Maine, named to head nation's Medicaid program She restored her agency's fiscal health as DHHS commissioner for Gov. LePage, but critics say she also tore a hole in the social services safety net. BY ERIC RUSSELLSTAFF WRITER Share Mary Mayhew, Maine's former commissioner of Health and Human Services, shown in April, has been appointed by the Trump Administration to head the Medicaid program. Staff photo by Derek Davis Former Maine health commissioner and Republican gubernatorial candidate Mary Mayhew has been tapped by the Trump administration to lead Medicaid, the health insurance program that covers more than 70 million low-income Americans. Seema Verma, head of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a prepared statement Monday that Mayhew has been named deputy administrator of the centers, and director of Medicaid. She also will oversee the Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, which is offered to some families that have children and make too much money to qualify for Medicaid. The two programs cost more than $350 billion annually, or about 10 percent of the entire federal budget. Mayhew is best known for her seven years as commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services under Gov. Paul LePage. During her tenure, she oversaw major changes to nearly all of Maine's public assistance programs, including food stamps and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Mayhew also played a major role in eliminating nearly 70,000 people from the state's Medicaid program and, like LePage, she was an ardent opponent of expanding Medicaid, which was made allowable at the state level under the Affordable Care Act. RELATED Welfare reformer Mary Mayhew leaving as commissioner of Maine DHHS Maine voters did eventually vote by referendum to expand Medicaid, but that expansion has
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Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They're Not. - The New York... - 0 views

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  • Working harder and longer will not translate into a promotion if employers pull up the ladders and offer supervisory positions exclusively to people with college degrees.
  • Because large companies now farm out many positions to independent contractors, those who buff the floors at Microsoft or wash the sheets at the Sheraton typically are not employed by Microsoft or Sheraton, thwarting any hope of advancing within the company.
  • Nearly 40 percent of full-time hourly workers know their work schedules just a week or less in advance.
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  • Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein showed in their landmark book, “Making Ends Meet,” single mothers pushed into the low-wage labor market earned more money than they did on welfare, but they also incurred more expenses, like transportation and child care, which nullified modest income gains.
  • In January, the federal government announced that it would let states require that Medicaid recipients work.
  • In a low-wage labor market characterized by fluctuating hours, tenuous employment and involuntary part-time work, a large share of vulnerable workers fall short of these requirements. Nationally representative data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation show that among workers who qualify for Medicaid, almost 50 percent logged fewer than 80 hours in at least one month.
  • America’s welfare policies have brought about a “decline in self-sufficiency.”
  • One study found that 90 percent of young women on welfare stopped relying on it within two years of starting the program, but most of them returned to welfare sometime down the road.
  • between jobs or after a family crisis.
  • The majority of working-age poor people connected to the labor market were part-time workers.
  • The nonworking poor person getting something for nothing is a lot like the cheat committing voter fraud: pariahs who loom far larger in the American imagination than in real life.
  • As Evelyn Nakano Glenn argues in her 2010 book, “Forced to Care,” industrialization caused American families to become increasingly reliant on wages, which had the effect of reducing tasks that usually fell to women (homemaking, cooking, child care) to “moral and spiritual vocations.” “In contrast to men’s paid labor,” Glenn writes, “women’s unpaid caring was simultaneously priceless and worthless — that is, not monetized.” She continues: “To add insult to injury, because they could not live up to the ideal of full-time motherhood, poor women of color were seen as deficient mothers and caregivers.”
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Florida State Household Income | Department of Numbers - 0 views

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  • Census ACS 1-year survey, the median household income for Florida was $52,594 in 2017, the latest figures available. Compared to the median US household income, Florida median household income is $7,742 lower. 2018 Census ACS data (including 2018 Florida household income numbers) will be released in September of 2019. Florida median family income and per capita income for Florida are shown further down.
  • median household income peaked in 2007 at $56,655 and is now $4,061 (7.17%) lower.
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    gives median household income, median family income, and per capita income and comparable national levels
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Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine - 0 views

www.leg.state.fl.us/...index.cfm volunteer liability Florida statutes 2018 volunteering protection nonprofit
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  • Such person
  • shall incur no civil liability for any act or omission
  • Such person was acting in good faith
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  • The injury or damage was not caused by any wanton or willful misconduct
  • the nonprofit organization for which the volunteer was performing services when the damages were caused shall be liable for such damages to the same extent as the nonprofit organization would have been liable if the liability limitation pursuant to subsection (1) had not been provided.
  • Members of elected or appointed boards, councils, and commissions of the state, counties, municipalities, authorities, and special districts shall incur no civil liability and shall have immunity from suit as provided in s. 768.28 for acts or omissions by members relating to members’ conduct of their official duties.
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