People First Wisconsin: Medicaid cuts are cruel, unnecessary, and devastating; needs don’t go away when funding does

Yesterday, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee began a mark-up hearing on its proposal to cut at least $715 billion in federal spending from Medicaid. The initial Congressional Budget Office estimates this proposal will result in at least 13.7 million people losing health coverage. The facts are that this would be the largest cut to Medicaid ever, will not make any improvements to Medicai...