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It is not only the patients and the inhabitants of Medicaid who join the Democrats to fight to protect the program.
The health care industry also does not want to see the Medicaid cuts.
Semafor has reported:
The health care industry pressure on Republicans to avoid cutting Medicaid while GOP legislators are looking for ways to pay the Trump’s legislative program. The coalition to strengthen American health care is launching a new announcement today, first shared with Semafor, which warns against “devastating cuts” to a program on which around 30 million children count.
The spot, which will be broadcast nationally on the cable, is part of a larger “Faces of Medicaid” campaign which is designed to dissuade the Republicans from reducing the popular health program for low -income and disabled Americans. Any language touching Medicaid is likely to be a painful place in discussions on the GOP budget, because moderate and vulnerable members say they will vote against a bill of reconciliation which cuts too deeply.
The group that executes this announcement is made up of part of the health system that the extensive medicaid cuts would decimate.
Hospitals, in particular rural and community hospitals, count on the financing of Medicaid to keep their doors open.
The United States is already facing a hospital crisis in large regions of the country. In rural areas, areas with larger populations of disabled residents or communities with high poverty levels, health care providers and hospitals have been close at a rapid rate for years.
These closings led to deserts of health care, which is a problem on which the Biden administration was intensely focused and that the Trump administration intends to worsen to pay tax reductions for the richest Americans.
The Senate Republicans proposed a budgetary gadget which allows them to avoid the Medicaid cuts while passing the tax reductions.
The republicans of the chamber are enragers and provide killing the Senate because it does not contain the thousands of dollars in cups, mainly in Medicaid, which they want.
Tax reductions for the rich will not only signify higher taxes for everyone. The consequences will be less access to health care and unless health care providers for vulnerable people who need help most.
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