Millions Of People With Disabilities Could Lose Their Healthcare To Pay For Trump's Tax Cuts For The Rich

Republicans are eyeing several options to slash federal Medicaid spending, which will result in millions of disabled Americans losing their healthcare.

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Cutting Healthcare For The Disabled To Pay For Tax Cuts For The Rich

House Republicans are starting to meet and discuss how they will offset Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax cuts for the rich with spending cuts. One of the areas that has come under immediate scrutiny is Medicaid.

People often get lost in the shuffle when politicians start talking about policies, but when it comes to Medicaid, these are real people.

Here are some statistics from Kaiser Family Foundation:

• Over one in ten (11%) working-age adults ages 18-64 living in the community reported having a disability on the 2022 American Community Survey, which is defined as having a difficulty with hearing, vision, cognition, ambulation, self-care, or independent living.

• Those 21.8 million working-age adults report difficulties with a range of different activities and are lower-income than w…