Cutting federal Medicaid expansion funding could lead to 30k additional deaths: Centers for American Progress

Former GOP Gov. Jan Brewer delivers harsh warning to Republicans against cutting Medicaid

Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer urges Republicans to avoid Medicaid cuts as Congress seeks to reduce the federal deficit.

RELEASE: Congressional Republicans’ Medicaid Proposals Would Lead To as Many as 34,200 Avoidable Deaths Each Year

Cutting federal Medicaid expansion funding could lead to 30k additional deaths: Analysis

(The Hill) -- An attempt by Republican lawmakers to roll back the federal government’s share of Medicaid expansion could result in tens of thousands of additional deaths, according to an analysis by a liberal think tank.  The analysis by the Centers for American Progress (CAP), shared first with The Hill, found that about 34,200 more people would die annually if the federal government reduced its current 90 percent match for the expansion costs …

Medicaid cuts could cause 30,000 deaths a year, group warns

House Republicans passed a budget resolution earlier this month that analysts said would result in unavoidable cuts to Medicaid.

GOP Plan to Cut Medicaid Match Could Lead to Thousands of Deaths, Analysis Warns

A new analysis by the Center for American Progress estimates that rolling back the federal... The post GOP Plan to Cut Medicaid Match Could Lead to Thousands of Deaths, Analysis Warns appeared first on News Facts Network.

Schumer: GOP Medicaid Cuts Threaten Addiction Care in Upstate NY - Utica Phoenix

Schumer: GOP Medicaid Cuts Would Inflame Opioid Crisis Across Upstate NY Just two weeks after Congressional Republicans voted to advance the largest cut to Medicaid in American history, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer stood with Finger Lakes people in recovery and nurses at the Finger Lakes Area Counseling & Recovery Agency (FLACRA) to call on Congressional Republicans to block Trump’s plan to decimate Medicaid. The Republican plan to cut $880 billio…