Medicaid is a lifeline for low-income people all over America and is the United States’ largest insurer. Additionally, the bill would gut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides resources to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget and ensure access to nutritious food. Thousands of those receiving food assistance, 13% of North Carolinians, would lose that assistance under the bill.
A bill making its way through the U.S. Senate would be devastating for the millions of people on Medicaid in North Carolina.
This isn’t politics as usual. This is dangerous. Over the past few months, I’ve watched headlines roll in with a knot in my stomach. Cuts to vital veterans’ services. Mass layoffs of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ staff. Unelected power brokers unraveling programs that took decades to build, with no accountability to the American people. President Donald Trump, backed by the likes of Elon Musk, has allowed his political allies to gut federal agencies, including those that directly serve veterans and their families.
More than 14,000 North Carolinians with intellectual and developmental disabilities receive ‘Innovations Waiver’ benefits under Medicaid. My son is among those receiving help.
But thousands more North Carolinians with intellectual and developmental disabilities — almost 19,000 of them — are on the “Registry of Unmet Needs,” the waitlist to receive these services under Medicaid.
The Trump administration’s withdrawal from meetings that establish the flu virus has experts worried.