Editor, Gazette-Journal:
The proposed Budget Reconciliation Bill, now in the Senate, will establish a tragic framework for taking from those most in need, rewarding those most financially secure through tax cuts, and adding horrifying amounts to our national deficit and amplifying the harm in the future.
Spending cuts in the legislation will result in hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding for Medicaid being lost. This will add millions of newly uninsured people to the Healthcare Marketplace and will raise insurance rates for all of us. It will add burdensome eligibility requirements which will likely result in elder care, childcare, Head Start, early intervention and disability services, and other needed services, much more difficult to access, if at all.
If this bill is passed, help will be needed for those who will go hungry by losing SNAP as well as having funds cut to community food banks. Help will be needed for those who will lose medical care by not having Medicaid ...