Did you call your senators about Trumpcare?
By Simon Haeder, Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University. Nurse Jane Kern administers medicine to patient Lexi Gerkin in Brentwood, New Hampshire. Lexi is one of thousands of severely disabled or ill children covered by Medicaid, regardless of family income. Charles Krupa/AP Despite many assertions to the contrary, Senate leaders are now saying they…
Valuable post, susie!
Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid paid for a big chunk of my cataract surgeries in 2015, without which I would be blind right now.
Trump and the Republicans want to give a $1 trillion dollar tax cut to the rich as outlined in their tax bill.
$800 billion of that is suppose to come from this Medicaid cut.
We can get a twofer here, if the Democrats get on board, by stopping the AHCA in the Senate.
By doing that Trump and the Republicans will not have the money available to give a $1 trillion dollar tax cut to the rich.
We all need to call our senators, Republican or Democrat, at least once a week and tell them to kill the AHCA.