US Edition‘If they cut too much, people will die’: Health coalition pushes GOP on Medicaid funding
- A health coalition is pressuring California Republicans about potential Medicaid cuts in Washington, D.C.
- The House approved a budget framework in February that proposed cutting $880 billion from Medicaid over ten years.
- Consumer groups and health industry leaders are lobbying lawmakers, highlighting Medicaid's role in rural districts.
- Ewing-Wilson, needing 24-hour care, stated, "If they reduce my budget, that doesn't change the fact that I need 24-hour care."
- Analysts suggest cuts could force Californians off Medi-Cal and reduce physician reimbursement rates, impacting healthcare access.
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‘People will die’: Inside the campaign to work Republicans on Medicaid
Tina Ewing-Wilson remembers the last time major Medicaid cuts slashed her budget.In the late 2000s, during the Great Recession, the pot of money she and other Medi-Cal recipients depend on to keep them out of costly residential care homes shrank. The only way she could afford help was to offer room and board to a series of live-in caregivers who she said abused alcohol and drugs and eventually subjected her to financial abuse. She vowed to never…
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Tina Ewing-Wilson remembers the last time major Medicaid cuts slashed her budget. In the late 2000s, during the Great Recession, the pot of money she and other Medi-Cal recipients depend on to keep them out of costly residential care homes shrank. The only way she could afford help was to offer room and board to a series of live-in caregivers who she said abused alcohol and drugs and eventually subjected her to financial abuse. She vowed to neve…
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