Funding Cuts Outrage
Health and home care workers protest cuts to Medicaid: ‘It’s not a luxury; it’s a necessity’ Rebekah Mahon, an Illinois Division of Rehabilitation Services personal assistant and single mother, relies on Medicaid and SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) to support herself and her 2-year-old child. Recently, though, she says she lost her SNAP benefits […]
Q&A: Federal Cuts to Medicaid, ACA
University of Chicago professor shares realities of the “Big Beautiful Bill” healthcare impacts Medicaid covers about 83 million people, Medicare about 66 million, and nearly 24 million people are enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans. Combined, these programs support nearly half of all Americans. But the recently passed “Big Beautiful Bill” puts them […]
