WASHINGTON — Medicaid emerged Monday as perhaps the singular issue on which the Republican bid to overhaul the Affordable Care Act will live or die.
House Republicans unveiled their official plan to repeal and replace much of the health care law, including dramatic changes to Medicaid, the insurance program that covers low-income Americans and that was expanded under Obamacare. Republicans want to convert the program from the open-ended entitlement it is now to a program with a hard spending limit.
Only hours earlier, however, a critical group of Senate Republicans released a letter rejecting earlier leaked versions of the House plan because of the Medicaid provisions. They each represent states that chose to expand Medicaid under the health care law, after the US Supreme Court made the expansion optional instead of mandatory in a 2012 ruling.
PEOPLE THAT ARE DISABLED ARE GOING TO DIE BECAUSE THE Republicans THAT HAS NEVER CARE FOR ANY ONE BUT THEM SELF AND NOW THEY WILL LOSE IN 2020
I hope for the sake of my disabled adult daughter and other individuals with family or friends of loved ones that they keep the developmental disability Waiver in place , so we can continue to provide our family members with quality care in the comfort of their home and to allow them to be integrated in society and not be subjected to a mental institute.
Trump please leave Medicaid and Medicare alone and don’t put a cap on it .when I first got out of school I worked for three years for two days a week and I used your ride to get to and from work which was 3 to 4 hours a day between waiting on them to pick me up and get me home on top of working 3 hours 2 days a week and because of the disability and the stress of not knowing how to socialize and stand up to my co-workers in an appropriate way .I ended up having to resign because the coworks knew I had a disability so they would make me do things that they were supposed to do but didn’t want to do. just because I couldn’t do some of the stuff because of my disability. so I ended up in jail because not relate to others and because of using your ride and the stress that both of those things together caused. thanks to a traumatic brain injury that I received at the age of 5 months old .and the area that I received the brain damage was the front frontal lobe which controls your cognitive your comprehension and judgement and and how to respond and how fast you respond to people in the appropriate way because I no longer could work. I received Medicaid and Medicare and I would like to know what is going to happen to those people who are dual eligible like me ??? that because of their disability cannot work anymore .I am 31 years old now and I am just now starting to learn the social skills I need to survive in this world. I did not have any siblings cousins or friends growing up in school .I was not allowed to go out for sports because I was mainstream two classes and got bad grades in those classes .that’s where normally kids learn their social skills from. And I came from a single-parent home who was going to college and working when I was in school. And didn’t have the time to run me all over to Special Olympics because the Special Olympics don’t transport the kids like the schools do when the kids are in sports. but because I couldn’t go out for sports because of those bad grades .it is taking me 15 years to start to learn those social skills I should have learned when I was a teenager. and deal with anger and life lessons and figuring out who I am and my personality that I should have learned back when I was in my teens. in the past two years living on my own I have went from being stuck at age 12 to 15 to 16 to 20 years old and I’m starting to finally get stable. so please don’t put a cap on Medicaid and Medicare where people with disabilities have to go back to work or get cut off Medicaid and have to choose between their medicines or food or housing .my meds are over $3,000 a month and that is for seizures circulation problems and thyroid. and the seizures was caused by the traumatic brain injury that I received at 5 months old from child abuse.my seizure meds are the most important I don’t want to die because you cut me Medicaid and Medicare off because if I can’t receive the medicines for the seizures I could end up dying from having too many seizures. I came this far I don’t want to have to go backwards by having to live with someone especially my parents house because it’s an unhealthy environment and having to go back to living with others will send me back 10 years .I’m just starting to finally get used to living back on my own and in the community independently I don’t want to have to go back to living with others .there are so many other people just like me elderly and disabled because of a disability can’t work. I will be praying that you make the right choices for people with disabilities and the elderly because God calls us to take care of the elderly and the disabled and the poor in the ourWorld and the funding that they receives blessings Naomi