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at your local library and follow us at DeafPanl underscore. So today I am here with my co-hosts, Artie Virkant. Hello. And Phil Rocco. Hi. And before we start, I just want to say, you know, I'm sorry in advance if I sound like a little off or like aloof today. Artie and I have been going through a lot in our personal lives with the Medicare Part D

denial that I've been fighting and all of the other things that come with trying to

coordinate care while we fight.

So I'm sorry if I sound a little off or like my voice sounds small.

Please don't mistake that for a lack of like deep and utter rage because it doesn't have anything to do with the topic.

Yeah, because we could always, we could always digitally alter your voice.

So there's more like, just turn the rage dial up.

Yeah, exactly.

Like auto tune, but you know, for powering through the crushing reality of the state and dealing with life as a chronically ill person.

But anyways, today we're going to talk about, we're going to focus once again on the so-called Medicaid Unwinding,

which as we talked about the last time that we covered this on the show, which was in the episode called The Unwinding from late March, which came out

two days before the April 1 official start of the Medicaid unwinding. So in that episode,

when we talked about what was coming and warned that this is perhaps the most dramatic system

shock to U.S. health healthcare in modern memory, it actually

turns out that it's playing out quite kind of worse than even we had anticipated and, you know,

with seemingly little pushback notice or concern. And Phil, I think you said in that conversation

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