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Medicaid does more than help low-income Americans afford health care, it also pays for everything from treatment for substance abuse to support for children with special needs. We must protect it.
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Thats medicare, which the GOP is ALSO robbing
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My mother was in a nursing home for 4 years in NJ and if it was not for Medicaid, my father would have had to pay $10k a month. He also could afford a lawyer to help with the application. Not everyone is so lucky.
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Also, ALL THOSE PEOPLE getting treatment because of Medicaid CREATES & SUSTAINS JOBS IN THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY. To the GOP wanting to SLASH Medicaid to save themselves some tax dollars, I say: There are cascading, negative effects to such actions.
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Don't forget low income seniors living on social security, in desperate need of nursing care. Like a 92-year-old woman, low income her whole life, now in full-stage dementia. Medicaid-funded nursing home. My mother.
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And the disabled.
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@DoctorPanama ....and most of residential long term /nursing home care! .#aging#frailty#dementia#carersThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Agreed! This single mom on Medicaid and SSI with terminal colon cancer in NV relies on Medicaid to help keep me alive during my fight. Here is one of the OpEds I have written to encourage others to
#FightForMedicaid! Plz RT the heck out of it! http://www.rgj.com/story/opinion/voices/2017/12/21/medicaid-chopping-block-hope-im-wrong-emily-reese/975215001/ …pic.twitter.com/L4ENbs09Fv
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