Moves to Cut Medicaid
Calls are needed TODAY! The House of Representatives is moving quickly toward a vote on a budget resolution that would require massive cuts to Medicaid funding.
These cuts would devastate over 80 million people, including 17 million older adults and individuals with disabilities, who rely on Medicaid for healthcare and essential home and community-based services.
The budget requires at least $880 billion in reductions from the committee that oversees Medicaid which will necessitate radical changes to the program to achieve that level of savings. These cuts would weaken the service system for people with disabilities, as millions of caregivers and home-based service providers are paid through Medicaid. Family caregivers, many of whom are already struggling to make ends meet, would face greater hardship.
These changes come under many different names, per capita caps, block granting, work requirements, roll backs of administrative gains. No matter the name, they are all cuts to Medicaid and should be opposed. Passage of this budget will require cuts to Medicaid which will cause harm, disproportionately impacting children, older adults, and people with disabilities.
Act Now!
- Use this easy form to email your members of Congress to demand they protect Medicaid and the vital services it provides!
- Call your members of Congress at 866-426-2631.