Op-Ed: Care For Constituents Or Chaos? Medicaid Cuts Will Devastate All Of Us

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In our country, which has so much abundance, poverty shouldn’t be a death sentence. However, proposed cuts to Medicaid will cause many individuals, families and communities to suffer for that very reason–poverty.  Significant and potentially massive cuts to Medicaid will cause irreparable harm. Shockwaves will reverberate in rural, urban, and suburban communities, and impact individuals, working families, many of our most fragile elderly and our most vulnerable young and disabled.