WA community groups seek to mobilize voters around Medicaid cuts

WA community groups seek to mobilize voters around Medicaid cuts

In late July, about 80 people gathered at the Henry Beauchamp Community Center in Yakima to learn more about how future cuts to Medicaid could affect them.At the forum that followed, they heard from a panel of 10 stakeholders explaining how the $911 billion in cuts to Medicaid over the next decade would affect their community.That gathering was just the latest in local community organizing efforts that have emerged in response to Republicans’ pl…