Medicaid cuts would rock Mass. health care, advocates warn
- Congress is considering large cuts to Medicaid funding, which could severely impact health centers like the Oneida Community Health Center that serves many Native Americans.
- More than 40% of the patients at the Oneida Community Health Center rely on Medicaid, providing essential health services.
- Tribal leaders view Medicaid cuts as a violation of government trust obligations to provide health care to Native Americans.
- Cuts to Medicaid could lead to reduced services and increased health disparities for Native American communities, according to health officials.
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Health care leaders say Medicaid cuts would further strain state hospitals and clinics
Joel Williams, who has been patient at Hennepin Healthcare for 11 years, speaks to media, lawmakers and health care leaders at a press conference in Minneapolis on March 20, 2025. Williams relies on Medicare and Medicaid to pay for his heath care and group home. "Today we're speaking out because we have to speak for the people who don't have a voice," Williams said. Photo by Madison McVan/Minnesota Reformer.Leaders of Hennepin Healthcare, who ov…
Medicaid Cuts Would Decimate Native American Health Programs
As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are bracing for catastrophe. That’s because more than 40% of the about 15,000 patients the center serves are enrolled in Medicaid. Cuts to the program would be detrimental to those patients and the… Source


Colorado Democrat Brittany Pettersen sounds alarm over potential Medicaid cuts
U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen warned Tuesday that looming cuts to Medicaid will have a domino effect across the health care system beyond the 1 million Coloradans who rely on the federal program, including raising insurance rates and potentially forcing rural…
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