GOP’s Plan To Roll Back Medicaid Would Slash Safety Net For Kids In Deep Trump Country
“Without the health insurance, kids aren’t going to get the immunizations and the checkups. There are going to be more lost days of school. More trips to the emergency room," said Dr. Traci Acklin, who grew up in Fayette County, West Virginia. "It would be food or healthcare for a lot of these families.”
Los Angeles Times:
Kids In Pro-Trump Rural Areas Have A Lot To Lose If GOP Rolls Back Medicaid
Communities like this aging West Virginia coal town along the Kanawha River were key to President Trump’s victory last year; more than two-thirds of voters in surrounding Fayette County backed the Republican nominee. Now, families in this rural county and hundreds like it that supported Trump face the loss of a critical safety net for children as congressional Republicans move to cut hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade from Medicaid, the half-century-old government health plan for the poor. (Levey, 7/6)
In other news on Medicaid under the Republicans' plan —
Modern Healthcare:
BCRA Spells Trouble For Providers
California has been approaching universal healthcare coverage in large part thanks to the expansion of the Medicare and Medi-Cal programs under the Affordable Care Act. Only 3.5% of California's population is uninsured and one out of every two children are covered by Medicaid, according to Marin General Hospital CEO Lee Domanico. But that could all change under the Senate's bill to replace the Affordable Care Act, Domanico said. (Kacik, 7/5)