An unusual 24-hour vigil in front of the United States Congress was held to protest proposed cuts to Medicaid, the government program that provides the nation's poor with a meager amount of health care.
Donald Trump's first annual budget is being hammered out, and it's expected to force hundreds of billions of dollars of healthcare costs onto the nation's working poor with questionable accusations of fraud, inefficiency, and government overreach.
- Cuts to US Medicare would heap medical costs on working poor
Cuts to Medicare would heap medical costs on working poor in US
In the US there is growing discontent over the Republican Party’s plans to drastically cut “Medicaid”.
Medicaid, especially is the leanest program we have, and it's providing services that no other health insurance provides for seniors, particularly the support to help them eat, bathe, dress, do those activities of daily living that keeps them living at home with their family where they want to be.
Natalie Kean, Justice in Aging
Medicaid is the third largest expenditure in the federal budget, though it's expected to be surpassed soon by military spending.
A nonpartisan report just declared that the rumored cuts would cause millions of people to lose the lowest level of health insurance.
- US healthcare cuts spark nationwide protests
US healthcare cuts spark nationwide protests
Healthcare patients, unions, medical workers, researchers and academics throughout the US have demanded a reversal of Trump
Martin Luther King said, a continual disinvestment of community and social uplift is an investment in the nation's despair.
And so over and over and over again, we see, whether it's from public schools or Medicaid and federal legislation or programs like the affordable connectivity program.
For some reason, what we see is these crucial resources and policies and programs, that are directly geared toward low income, underserved communities, it was created for these communities, are being crucially attacked.
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The administration of US President Donald Trump has officially shuttered the US Agency for International Development (USAID), dealing a final blow to the foreign aid agency.
Western liberal democracy has always resisted providing basic services to the lower and middle classes, but many say the Medicaid cuts would inflict exceptional cruelty, rolling American society back decades.
The effect would be catastrophic for families like mine.
We rely on home and community based waiver services, and what that means for us is that we have health care, we have people trained in our kids needs, that are able to come and stay with them, make sure they're healthy and safe while we're able to go to work.
…without Medicaid, commercial employer based insurances don't cover that sort of thing, and any loss would be detrimental to our ability to function as a family now, and, we would be completely unable to plan for our future.
Laura, Little Lobbyists Family Alliance
- Disastrous Trump economic policies
Disastrous Trump economic policies
The economic policies of Trump are bleeding the US economy, impacting the average US consumer as well as adversely effecting global economic stability.
Trump's conservative drive to gut the size of the federal government now appears to have the most medically vulnerable in its sights.
The health care system of the USA, which is already infamous for its inequality and notorious for its rapacious capitalism, could get even worse.
- Trump induces socio-economic turmoil in Washington
Trump induces socio-economic turmoil in Washington
The US capital, Washington, DC, is in extreme socio-economic turmoil as a result of returning President Donald Trump
