In Arizona’s Mr. Andrew Biggs is lecturing us on how Republicans are going to go a spending invoice benefiting those that don’t want tax breaks to get by. As a substitute of slicing Protection or another applications, Andrew together with different AZ Republicans comparable to Elijah James Crane can be slicing Medicaid which helps decrease earnings residents. Right here is Andrew giving them with the lecturing-finger within the air.
“You can dress ’em up but you can’t take them out” in public.
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Sahara Sajjadi on the Arizona Courier,
“Republicans’ Medicaid cuts pit working Arizonans against the ultra wealthy”
Rising up in poverty in rural America, Elizabeth Lee was solely capable of see a pediatrician because of Medicaid, the general public medical insurance program that covers almost 80 million low-income adults, folks with disabilities, pregnant ladies, and youngsters.
“I remember our financial struggles quite clearly as a child and I distinctly remember feeling so grateful that we could at least see a doctor or a dentist when we needed to. Without that program [Medicaid], I would’ve gone without [healthcare] entirely because my parents just couldn’t afford it,” mentioned Lee.
Thirty years later, Lee works as a fertility nurse in Arizona, the place a lot of her sufferers depend on Medicaid. They typically use their protection for contraception, prenatal care, postpartum care, and remedy for gynecologic circumstances.
A few of Lee’s sufferers might quickly lose their protection, nonetheless, below a invoice being pushed by Republicans in Congress, which requires lots of of billions of {dollars} in cuts to Medicaid so as to pay for tax cuts that primarily profit firms and the very rich.
Lee believes the proposal might result in the collapse of Arizona’s healthcare system and go away the weak communities she treats with out important care.
“If we cut Medicaid, we cut people’s lives short. So we’ve got to reject any policy that treats healthcare as disposable. It’s a moral issue,” mentioned Lee. “These proposed cuts would have catastrophic effects on access to the full spectrum of reproductive health services.”
Medicaid funds about 46% of all births in Arizona and covers one in 5 ladies of reproductive age within the US. Medicaid may assist with preventative companies, offering ladies with birth-control choices to forestall unintended pregnancies.
Greater than 2 million Arizonans depend on Medicaid, often known as AHCCCS in Arizona, for healthcare. However the proposal being pushed by Republicans in Congress might trigger lots of of 1000’s of them — together with single moms, veterans, and seniors — to lose protection and entry to essential healthcare.
US Republican Reps. Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, and Eli Crane of Arizona are amongst those that again the trouble to chop Medicaid. The laws mandates that able-bodied adults who get Medicaid work, attend faculty, or volunteer for a minimum of 80 hours per thirty days to stay enrolled.
Remainder of the story might be discovered on the Arizona Courier.
