Temple
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 | | Subject: The poor and people with disabilities ‘are going to die’: Trump takes axe to Medicaid Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:54 pm | |
| January 30, 2020
The poor and people with disabilities ‘are going to die’: Trump takes axe to Medicaid
The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled a plan allowing states to convert federal Medicaid funding into block grants, a longstanding conservative goal that critics warn could have deadly consequences for millions of vulnerable people who rely on the healthcare program as a major source of income.
“Trump’s plan will ensure that many working families who are currently covered by Medicaid will face cuts to their services, wait lists for needed care, and the risk of medical debt and bankruptcy from trying to pay for illness.”
Progressive advocacy groups warned the plan could do precisely the opposite by giving states a green light to cut Medicaid spending and divert federal funding to other state programs, potentially leaving millions without essential healthcare coverage.
“People, poor disabled people in particular, are going to die,” tweeted Alice Wong, director of the Disability Visibility Project. “Not an exaggeration.”
“Trump’s plan will ensure that many working families who are currently covered by Medicaid will face cuts to their services, wait lists for needed care, and the risk of medical debt and bankruptcy from trying to pay for illness,” Kemp said in a statement. “These further attempts to cut health care are just more evidence that Americans need Medicare for All now to protect their access to care once and for all.”
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.
((((More votes lost, millions; not only the disabled person but their family members will not vote for trump
/ nor will the poor that has their food stamps taken
amoung other cuts..
and the list builds..
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Grackle
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| | Subject: Re: The poor and people with disabilities ‘are going to die’: Trump takes axe to Medicaid Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:03 pm | |
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- {-}millions of vulnerable people who rely on the healthcare program as a major source of income.
I always thought medicaid was to cover medical expenses ..when did it become a major source of income and for whom?
Free health care shouldn't be considered or even mentioned as long as democrats wanna give it to the millions of illegals in the U.S. now and the millions more to come in the future if dems have their way ...Why would Americans wanna pay for the health care of millions of illegal migrants that don't even belong in the country?
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