Indivisible Healthcare Fort Worth

26/07/2025

Tarrant County Town Hall With Beto O'Rourke
Town Hall

Saturday, August 9
3 – 5pm CDT

Ridglea Theater
6025 Camp Bowie Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76116

About this event

Big news! Beto O’Rourke is coming to Tarrant County for a town hall about state and federal issues on Saturday, August 9th at 3:00 PM CDT.

Doors open at 2:30PM CDT. Event begins promptly at 3:00PM CDT.

If you need accommodations, please email us at Info@poweredxpeople.org

Please make sure to register for this event. Everyone is welcome to join!

Big news! Beto O’Rourke is coming to Tarrant County for a town hall about state and federal issues on Saturday, August 9th at 3:00 PM CDT. Doors open at 2:30PM CDT. Event begins promptly at 3:00PM CDT. If you need accommodations, please email us at Info@poweredxpeople.org Please make sure to regis...

22/07/2025

“Dangerous levels of heat are forecast in the South, Midwest and West on Tuesday, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

“About 58.9 million people — 18 percent of the population of the contiguous United States — live in the areas expected to have dangerous levels of heat.

“The heat index is a measure of how hot it really feels outside, taking into account humidity along with temperature. The measurement is used to indicate when the level of heat is dangerous for the human body while in the shade. When out in the sun, a person could perceive that temperature as being higher by up to 15 degrees Fahrenheit (8.3 degrees Celsius).

“Hundreds of people die from extreme heat in the United States every year. On hot days, the National Weather Service recommends that people drink fluids, stay in cooler rooms, keep out of the sun and check up on relatives and neighbors, especially older people and those who live alone.

“How hot will it feel in your area?

“Look up the coming week’s forecast for places across the country, and see the heat index forecast in or near your city or town.”

See detailed maps of the latest heat index forecasts in the United States.

17/07/2025

Dear Texas Indivisible Chapters,

My name is Samantha Gore and I'm a mother from Texas. I grew up going to camps in the hill country, along with generations of my family.I am planning an action called Texas Moms Rising, in D.C. this coming Monday, July 21st, along with another mother from Texas.

We are commemorating the lives lost in the Texas floods and calling on our government to fully fund our NWS, NOAA and FEMA in order to protect our children as storms become deadlier.

We have funding for parents from Texas to fly to D.C., we can support flights, hotels and food. We are trying to build our Texas parent contingent at the action. If you all could share this within your communities it will help us get more Texas parents to D.C. You can put anyone who is interested in touch with me, I'll get on the phone quickly with anyone who emails me and can answer any questions.

They can also sign up for the action directly through our action network link below and select that they are parents from Texas who need funding. Someone will reach out to help them book travel, or if they book they're own travel, we can reimburse them. Once registered for the event they will be added to a whatsapp group so that they will be looped in with the other people attending. - hotel etc.

Here is the action network link:

27 children at summer camp died in catastrophic flooding in Texas last week. This is every parent's nightmare. Our hearts break for these children, the more than 100 other people who lost their lives in the flooding, for their families and communities. As Texas moms, we can't and won't stand by whil...

16/07/2025

“Alabama essentially has one private insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, which has a whopping 94% of the market of large-group insurance plans, according to the health policy nonprofit KFF. That dominance allows the insurer to consistently deny claims, many doctors say, charge people more for coverage, and pay lower rates to doctors and hospitals than they would in other states…

“Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama also has the largest share of individual insurance plans in the state, according to data from the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services. Perhaps not coincidentally, Alabama also had the highest denial rates for in-network claims by insurers on the individual marketplace in 2023, according to a KFF analysis: 34%. Neighboring Mississippi, where the majority insurer has less of the market share at 81%, has an average denial rate of 15%.

“Alabama is an extreme case, but people in many other states face health insurance monopolies, too. One insurer, Premera Blue Cross Group, has a 94% share of the large-group market in Alaska, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming has a 91% market share in that state. In 18 states, one insurer has 75% or more of the large-group health insurance marketplace, according to KFF data.”

In some states, one health insurer dominates the market, driving up prices and creating red tape.

16/07/2025

📞TOMORROW: Join my Telephone Town Hall July 15 at 7pm CT. I’ll discuss issues facing San Antonio and the nation, including:

-The Big Ugly Law’s impact on healthcare and more
-Gov. Abbott’s undemocratic plan to gerrymander Texas
-Recovery efforts after devastating floods

RSVP at castro.house.gov.

14/07/2025

GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON:
Community Event · Volunteer organized

Thursday, July 17
6 – 8pm CDT

Burk Burnett Park
501 W 7th St
Fort Worth, TX 76102

About this event

Join several local Tarrant County Organizations for an evening of Action!

Protesting is just one component of resistance. Come learn how to advocate for policies that protect our communities.

Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lies with the people.

On July 17, the anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’s passing, we’re taking action across the country to defend our democracy and carry forward his legacy of Good Trouble.

From voter suppression bills like the SAVE Act to the criminalization of protest, the Trump administration is launching a full-scale attack on our civil and human rights. But we know the truth: in America, the power lies with the people, and we’re rising to prove it.

This is more than a protest; it’s a moral reckoning. A continuation of the movement Lewis helped lead, and a new front in the struggle for freedom.

Join several local Tarrant County Organizations for an evening of Action! Protesting is just one component of resistance. Come learn how to advocate for policies that protect our communities. Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil an...

14/07/2025

“Mary Strause, a filmmaker in Wisconsin, logged on to Amazon’s video-streaming service in late May so she could share a link to her latest project, a docuseries that harshly criticized the U.S. health care industry. She was surprised to see that her video had vanished.

“Ms. Strause had no way of knowing it, but the video had been taken down after a law firm working for UnitedHealth Group, one of the country’s largest health care companies, sent a letter warning Amazon and another streaming service, Vimeo, that the video was defamatory.

“It was the latest salvo in an aggressive and wide-ranging campaign to quiet critics. In recent months, UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor and activists like Ms. Strause and her father, who complained about a UnitedHealth subsidiary.

“In legal letters and court filings, UnitedHealth has invoked last year’s murder of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of the company’s health insurance division, to argue that intense criticism of the company risks inciting further violence.

“The tactics have had an impact. Amazon and Vimeo both removed Ms. Strause’s film. The Guardian postponed publishing an investigation of the company after UnitedHealth sued over a previous article it said was defamatory.

“UnitedHealth joins a growing group of companies and wealthy individuals, including President Trump, who are using legal threats and lawsuits to deter or penalize criticism.”

The company has invoked the murder of an executive last year to complain about coverage in news outlets, on streaming services and on social media.

13/07/2025

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism

Virtual Event · Hosted by No Kings

Wednesdays
8 – 9:30pm EDT
Join from anywhere

About this event

Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have to wait until it’s too late. We can stop this. But it’ll take all of us—not just on single days of mass action, but through sustained organizing in our communities.

That’s why this summer, we’re launching One Million Rising—a national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. This is how we build people power that can’t be ignored. You’re invited to join us—and lead.

Let’s build a force bigger than fear and louder than hate. Let’s get ready. Let’s get organized. Let’s stop Trump.

Session 1: The Moment & Your Mission - July 16 Get oriented to making meaning of this moment and the role you can play in coordinated strategic action.

Session 2: How to Make it Happen - July 30 This train-the-trainer session is how we get to one million. Learn not just our strategy, but how you can train others and get them on board. You'll host your first community resistance gathering after this session.

Session 3: What Now? - August 13 You'll be onboarded to basic campaign design and learn how to implement it locally as well as get plugged into our next national campaign work. Your second community resistance gathering will move this action forward.

Sign up for all 3 sessions to get the most out of this experience. Watch it live with a friend in person, and get ready now to host your own community resistance gatherings after the second and third sessions. This is how we get to 1 million!

Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have to wait until it’s too late. We can stop this....

10/07/2025

“The U.S. has reported 1,288 measles cases this year — the highest number in 33 years, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The last time the U.S. saw more measles cases was in 1992, eight years before the disease was declared eliminated in the country.

"We're seeing a lot more measles transmission than we are used to," says Caitlin Rivers. She's the director of the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation at Johns Hopkins University, which has its own measles dashboard.

"Measles is one of the most infectious diseases known to humans. And more importantly, it's preventable. And so we really hate to see this resurgence of a preventable virus," Rivers says.

“Since the start of the year, measles cases have been confirmed by more than three dozen states plus the District of Columbia. The largest outbreak by far is in Texas. The state has reported 753 measles cases this year. Across the U.S., 155 people have been hospitalized, and three people have died.

“And while the Texas outbreak has slowed significantly, across the country, Rivers says the U.S. is now seeing more cases on a weekly basis than in previous years.

“The Texas outbreak started in January. At one point, Rivers says, the state was reporting 15 to 20 new cases of measles per day, raising fears that, if the outbreak continued the U.S. would lose its ‘elimination’ status, which is a technical term in public health that means the disease has not had a constant transmission for a 12-month period or longer. She says that's less likely to happen now, given that the state is only reporting a handful of cases per week.”

The U.S. has hit an unwelcome milestone in measles cases this year. The CDC is reporting 1,288 cases across the country. The disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago.

07/07/2025

“Shorter enrollment periods. More paperwork. Higher premiums. The sweeping tax and spending bill pushed by President Donald Trump includes provisions that would not only reshape people’s experience with the Affordable Care Act but, according to some policy analysts, also sharply undermine the gains in health insurance coverage associated with it…

“Millions — perhaps up to half of enrollees in some states — may lose or drop coverage as a result of that and other changes in the legislation combined with a new rule from the Trump administration and the likely expiration at year’s end of enhanced premium subsidies put in place during the covid-19 pandemic. Without an extension of those subsidies, which have been an important driver of Obamacare enrollment in recent years, premiums are expected to rise 75% on average next year. That’s starting to happen already, based on some early state rate requests for next year, which are hitting double digits.

"’We estimate a minimum 30% enrollment loss, and, in the worst-case scenario, a 50% loss,’ said Devon Trolley, executive director of Pennie, the ACA marketplace in Pennsylvania, which had 496,661 enrollees this year, a record.”

States that run their own health insurance marketplaces fear an end to automatic Obamacare reenrollment under the tax and spending megabill would have an outsize effect on their policyholders.

05/07/2025

These are the changes to nutrition programs in the big ugly reconciliation bill...

Food Benefits
Cost (+$) or Savings (-$)

Interactions between provisions $9.0 bil.

SNAP eligibility for certain immigrants
Limit benefits to citizens or lawful permanent residents, with some exceptions –$1.9 bil.

Repeal the National Education and Obesity Prevention Grant Program –$5.5 bil.

SNAP utility allowances
Limit how energy assistance is used to set SNAP allotments –$5.9 bil.

Internet expense restrictions
Forbid use of internet costs in setting SNAP allotments –$11 bil.

SNAP administration cost sharing
Increase the share states pay to administer the program –$25 bil.

Thrifty Food Plan
Limit increases to the plan used to set food benefit levels –$37 bil.

SNAP state matching funds
Require states to pay a share of benefits currently funded in full by the federal government
This provision was amended in order to gain the support of Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. It would now delay cost-sharing for states with high payment error rates (including Alaska). –$40 bil.

SNAP work requirements
A wider range of aid recipients would be required to obtain work. Alaska and Hawaii would be eligible for waivers to bypass the requirements. –$69 bil.

The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.

05/07/2025

These are changes that the big ugly reconciliation bill makes to health care outside of the changes to Medicaid...

Other Health Care (beyond Medicaid)
Cost (+$) or Savings (-$)

Interactions between provisions $83 bil.

Rural health fund
Establish a $25 billion fund to help states support rural health care providers
The size of the fund was increased to $50 billion to help win the support of Republicans concerned about the effects of Medicaid cuts on rural hospitals. $23 bil.

Orphan drugs
Exempt certain drugs from the Medicare drug negotiation program $4.9 bil.

Telehealth services
Allow high-deductible health plans to provide telehealth services without cost sharing $4.3 bil.

Health savings accounts
Expand eligibility for tax-free health savings accounts $3.6 bil.

Health savings account uses
Allow tax-free health savings account money to be used for direct payments to primary care doctors outside of insurance $2.8 bil.

Increase some Medicare doctor payments
Change a formula that determines doctors’ pay from Medicare for one year $1.9 bil.

Limit immigrant Medicare coverage
Limit eligibility to green card holders and certain other immigrants (current law includes all who are “lawfully present”) –$5.0 bil.

Obamacare subsidy penalties
Require people who estimate their income incorrectly to refund the government for more tax credits
This provision was changed at the last minute to apply to people whose incomes are below the poverty line, making them responsible for paying back the full cost of their subsidies. –$20 bil.

Premium tax credits during Medicaid waiting period
Eliminate certain exceptions for those in a Medicaid waiting period due to immigration status that allows them to receive premium tax credits –$50 bil.

Premium tax credits for immigrants
Limit eligibility to green card holders and certain other immigrants (current law includes all who are “lawfully present”) –$75 bil.

Obamacare subsidy verification
Require annual verification of income and other changes –$82 bil.

The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.