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Say "NO" to $880 Billion Cuts to Medicaid
You're Probably Getting Screwed
J.D. Scholten
Feb 25

Welcome to You’re Probably Getting Screwed, a weekly newsletter and video series from J.D. Scholten and Justin Stofferahn about the Second Gilded Age and the ways economic concentration is putting politics and profits over working people.


Republicans in the U.S House plan to vote on a budget this week with $880 Billion in Medicaid cuts in it! Here’s what it means…



Cuts to federal Medicaid funding would have far-reaching consequences, with states being forced to either raise taxes or scale back program eligibility, limit covered benefits, or lower reimbursement rates to providers.

Heck, Steve Bannon has even come out against this. Which is only the 2nd time I have agreed with him and the first we’ve cited Fortune magazine here…

The Center for American Progress released information that you can look up how these cuts would impact your Congressional District.

For example, there are 174,295 people on Medicaid where I live and the district would lose $2.18B.

Here are just a few examples of what’s going to happen if these cuts pass, so they can make room to give more tax breaks to the super wealthy and corporations:

First, nursing homes will close. 62% of all nursing home residents in the country rely on Medicaid. In Iowa, nursing homes are struggling to survive with an already low Medicaid reimbursement rate. This will close nursing homes, especially in rural communities.

Second, more people will become homeless. In a place like Iowa, if you're a low-income Iowan aged 65 or older or a low-income disabled adult you may be eligible for a partial reimbursement of your rent. They are already making cuts to this program at the state level here, forcing a couple of residents in my hometown that have reached out to me to move, and hopefully not to become homeless.

Third, overloading case workers causing more staffing shortages. This means people with disabilities having to rely on their family for care. In Sioux City, we have someone who is very active in the community, fulltime career and on the city council but there are days if it wasn’t for his mom he can’t get out of bed because of existing shortages.

All of this, just so we can give more tax breaks to the super wealthy and corporations.