To: Governor Whitmer
We Need Your Voice: Tell Governor Whitmer to Defend Medicaid Funding
Dear Governor Whitmer:
Congress has rushed to put together a budget that includes billions of dollars in tax cuts for large corporations and billionaires, while slashing the Medicaid budget by $880 billion.
Medicaid is an essential program that provides health insurance to 72 million people in America, covering 62 percent of long-term care residents in nursing homes and half of all births nationwide.
For the 72 million people who have Medicaid, these cuts would rip away healthcare coverage for critical—and in many cases lifesaving—services and leave families one medical emergency away from crippling medical debt. The impacts of these cuts would be far-reaching, disrupting care in all communities across different life-stages, while having devastating consequences on businesses and our economy.
State budgets across the nation would also be negatively impacted. Medicaid makes up 30 percent of state budgets, meaning cuts to federal support would force states to make impossible choices: slash healthcare for those who need it most or gut other core programs that states fund. Further, these cuts would disproportionately harm people living in rural communities, leaving them with more sick people and fewer options for care.
We urge you to join a growing coalition of bipartisan state government groups and speak out to object to these reckless Medicaid cuts, which would have devastating consequences for families in our state.
Congress has rushed to put together a budget that includes billions of dollars in tax cuts for large corporations and billionaires, while slashing the Medicaid budget by $880 billion.
Medicaid is an essential program that provides health insurance to 72 million people in America, covering 62 percent of long-term care residents in nursing homes and half of all births nationwide.
For the 72 million people who have Medicaid, these cuts would rip away healthcare coverage for critical—and in many cases lifesaving—services and leave families one medical emergency away from crippling medical debt. The impacts of these cuts would be far-reaching, disrupting care in all communities across different life-stages, while having devastating consequences on businesses and our economy.
State budgets across the nation would also be negatively impacted. Medicaid makes up 30 percent of state budgets, meaning cuts to federal support would force states to make impossible choices: slash healthcare for those who need it most or gut other core programs that states fund. Further, these cuts would disproportionately harm people living in rural communities, leaving them with more sick people and fewer options for care.
We urge you to join a growing coalition of bipartisan state government groups and speak out to object to these reckless Medicaid cuts, which would have devastating consequences for families in our state.
Sincerely,
Why is this important?
Republicans in Congress are pushing for massive tax breaks for the rich and think we should pay for them by cutting healthcare (and other critical programs) for those who can least afford it.
Right now, Medicaid funding is on the chopping block at the federal level, putting 72 million seniors, children, low-income families, pregnant people, people with disabilities, young people newly in the workforce, and people across America at risk of losing healthcare coverage. [1]
The thing is, a massive cut to Medicaid like this will not just impact healthcare, but entire state budgets! Medicaid makes up 30 percent of state budgets, meaning cuts to federal support would force Governors in both red and blue states to make impossible choices: slash healthcare for those who need it most or gut other essential programs to fill the gap. [2]
