I was rejected for my state's version of medicaid 4 times because no rep would take the time to go through my application (I made over the income limit, but lived in Flint, MI during the water crisis, making me eligible for a higher limit). I just stopped trying after 4 months.
Yes—but that doesn't mean it should be accepted. It's common at least in part because people don't worry too much about the consequences of disadvantaging the poor and others with comparatively less voice in society. So, when it happens, if possible we should amplify the news of it to make the people in decision-making positions hopefully think twice before allowing such behavior.
My experience is that you're rejected for programs at least once before they accept you and it's not not purposeful, if that makes sense.
I'm not disabled, but I'll probably make more than the limit this year. My income is super unstable year-to-year. But I'm most likely losing my biggest contract sometime 2023 so might qualify again. We'll see.
Hope things work out for you. They need to get that sorted out, particularly for people who lived in Flint and were victimized by governmental incompetence and should be checked regularly for lead damage. (I was lucky and moved out of Flint in 2011. :| )
If this is how critical pieces of software, the ones that sustain life (albeit in an indirect, societal way), will continue to be written, we'll be fucked.
And yeah... Flint was a disaster. It seems like every city around here has its own little ecological disaster. Ann Arbor with the PFAS/PFOS, St Clair River with the no swim warnings, etc...
> It seems like every city around here has its own little ecological disaster. Ann Arbor with the PFAS/PFOS, St Clair River with the no swim warnings, etc...
It's very f'ed up. Like, it's telling that back when I moved to Lansing, I lived near the Capitol because 'hey, they're probably not going to poison/give cancer to/etc. the politicians'. That's medieval peasant era reasoning: "If I live in the castle with the lord, he'll protect the castle since it's his house."
We're so fucked.
No organization is going to invest seriously in doing an awesome job at something that is a pure financial loss. Just follow the incentives. One would have to be completely insane to expect otherwise. When you are just a number to the organization you are dealing with the effect is magnified.
I'm sure you can cite examples of governmental bad behavior that are as neglectful or worst, but this behavior was by Comcast, not the government. In fact, in this case, the very existence of the Internet Essentials program in the first place was because of a government-imposed condition before approving a merger (although Comcast now continues it despite the specific provision having lapsed).