How AHCA’s Medicaid Reductions Could Harm Seniors and People With Disabilities
Elderly and Disabled at Risk From AHCA’s Proposed Medicaid Cuts
The GOP’s bill to repeal the ACA, known as the “Affordable Care Act,” proposes massive and devastating cuts to Medicaid funding nationwide. This would affect not just the adults who got coverage under Medicaid expansion but also those groups that Medicaid was designed to cover and protect from its beginning. Read more from Kaiser Health News below about how Medicaid is vital to helping people with disabilities have active lives in the community and how the AHCA’s proposed cuts to Medicaid would jeopardize that.
H.R. 1628, American Health Care Act of 2017 and Cuts to Medicaid
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the proposed cuts to Medicaid in the Obamacare repeal bill that passed the House of Representatives amounts to $834 billion over ten years.
