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The following is from the National Disability Rights Network:
The House Budget plans to slash Medicaid in order to offset tax cuts for the rich – and they’re moving quickly.
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.