Program covers low-income families, but families brace for cuts to it as part of the Trump-backed ‘one big, beautiful bill’
Whether taking care of an older parent, a relative with disabilities or a child with a serious medical condition, family caregivers in the US are nervous and afraid of upcoming cuts to Medicaid – including those resulting from the Donald Trump-backed legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The program, which serves low-income families, pregnant women, children, seniors and people with disabilities, enables more than 70 million people to receive critical services while alleviating some of the financial demands on caregivers. But now the bill could chip away at that support with cuts that include ending the temporary incentive for states to adopt the Medicaid expansion, implementing mandatory work requirements (with some exceptions), more frequent eligibility redeterminations for those covered under the Medicaid expansion, and reducing state funding that could force cuts to state-funded home and community-based services for older adults.
While huge right freaks out about Kirk, remind them political violence can happen with a pen as well. There’s no difference in my eyes to killing one person with a gun and killing one person with a policy. We celebrate when a CEO kills hundreds of people with their decisions but freak out when the people fight back? Nah fam. They (wealth and power) started this, rest assured the people will finish it.
The very idea is: you don’t. That’s why they cut medicaid. If you can’t afford health care on your own, you are superfluous baggage to society in their eyes.
The less money they have to spend on people, the more they can put into the rich peoples hands.
