FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Friday, May 16, 2025
Contact: Linda Benesch, lbenesc
Republican Medicaid Cuts Will Kill People
(Washington, DC) — The following is a statement from Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, on the Republican plan to slash $715 billion from Medicaid:
“Republicans are stealing health care from 13.7 million Americans to give trillions in tax handouts to billionaires.
House Budget Committee Republicans only voted against this plan because they want to make it even crueler. Make no mistake, Republicans still plan to bring it to the House floor next week.
Their plan will kill people. It will close hospitals, especially those in rural areas and inner cities, across the country. It will also close nursing homes, since Medicaid pays for over 60 percent of nursing home care.
The ripple effect of these cuts will hit every single person in this country. The hospital closest to you may close. If not, it will become more overburdened as uninsured people are forced to use the emergency room for care.
Unless you are a billionaire, your standard of living and your health care will get worse if this despicable plan becomes law.”
Further reading: Republicans Plan to Rip Medicaid Away from Millions of Seniors — All to Give Tax Cuts to Billionaires
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Social Security Works is a non-profit organization working to improve the economic security of all Americans by fighting to expand Social Security, improve Medicare and Medicaid, and lower the outrageous prices of prescription drugs.