Justice in Getting older condemns the Senate’s passage of the finances reconciliation invoice, which might reduce well being care and vitamin help that older adults, folks with disabilities, and their households depend on day by day—all to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
The Senate ignored the widespread opposition to the laws handed by the Home of Representatives, and voted to make much more extreme cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Inexpensive Care Act—amounting to over $1 trillion in cuts to well being care funding and 17 million folks changing into uninsured. These dangerous cuts will trigger deep and lasting hardship, forcing many older adults to forgo vital care, face preventable crises, and endure pointless struggling—and even demise.
“This invoice is a staggering betrayal of our nation’s older adults that can ship hundreds of thousands already struggling to fulfill their primary wants additional into poverty,” declared Justice in Getting older’s Government Director, Kevin Prindiville. “It might strip well being care protection from hundreds of thousands of low-income folks, shutter nursing services, and erase generations of progress in increasing entry to care in order that older adults and other people with disabilities can stay of their properties and communities.”
“Our collective advocacy is making a distinction, and the combat shouldn’t be over. We should proceed to do all the pieces we are able to to cease this harmful and deeply unpopular invoice from changing into legislation. We name on members of the Home to hearken to their constituents and reject it.”
Because the Home of Representatives takes up the invoice once more, we urge you to hitch us on this combat to guard Medicaid and SNAP by calling your lawmakers at 202-224-3121 and sharing our sources.
