"#Oregon is shipping air conditioners, air purifiers and power banks to some of its most vulnerable residents, a first-in-the-nation experiment to use #Medicaid money to prevent the potentially deadly health effects of extreme heat, wildfire smoke and other #climate-related disasters.
If Oregon can help enrollees avoid a costly trip to the doctor or the ER after #ExtremeWeather, other state Medicaid programs may ask the federal government if they can adopt the benefit."
Fiddle while the economy burns and everybody becomes homeless, then give the homeless air conditioners that they can't use. Yep, that's a bureaucracy, all right.
Still: giving someone an AC unit or air filter can keep them healthy during a heatwave or smoke emergency, quite apart from being cheaper than paying for their ER visit.
The systemic way: force landlords to build thermally resilient apartment buildings. But you can't wait for that to happen.
@CelloMomOnCars heat pumps, I hope. At least some of this sort of initiative has managed to get that one extra valve into the box with the air conditioner.
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