Take Action -- Tell Congress: No Cuts to Medicaid in Budget Reconciliation Bill
Email Congress to urge lawmakers to oppose cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, which provides health coverage to 1 in 5 Americans. As part of a budget reconciliation bill to extend tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and corporations, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has instructions to find $880 billion in cuts, which would primarily come from massive cuts to Medicaid - CONGRESS NEEDS TO FUND HEALTH CARE, NOT BILLIONAIRE TAX CUTS
The proposed cuts to Medicaid, which provides health insurance to 80 million low-income Americans, including 38 million children and 13 million seniors and people with disabilities, will leave hospitals, clinics, and the health system without a key pillar of funding.
Cutting Medicaid would force states, cities, towns, and schools to slash critical public services and jobs. Medicaid is even more critical for rural and small-town America, where many working people and their dependents do not have employer-sponsored healthcare.
See the Center for American Progress’ map of where Americans who are covered by Medicaid live. Read IFPTE’s issue brief, Support Robust and Responsible Federal Assistance for State and Local Government Programs and Services, here.