Federal Medicaid Cut Could Leave 20 Million Americans Without Healthcare

Federal Medicaid Cut Could Leave 20 Million Americans Without Healthcare

A proposal to eliminate federal funding for expanded state Medicaid programs could leave 20 million people without health coverage.

NC families with disabled children press lawmakers to maintain funding as federal Medicaid cuts loom

By Rose Hoban Finley Thomas is an 11-year-old girl who’s got a morning makeup and skin care routine. She loves Halloween, dressing up, her older brothers and cheering with her squad.  She also uses a wheelchair, has a tracheostomy tube that gets hooked up to a ventilator at night, receives tube feedings for much of her nutrition, and has multiple therapy sessions each week—all the result of a neurological condition she was born with that has rec…