Thread by @queer_spice

1 in 4 people in this country rely on Medicaid for their health care – and the grand majority of the people who receive Medicaid are disabled people, older adults, and children.

Why do we have to #SaveMedicaid? Because:

As my brilliant boss @njorwic says, Medicaid keeps families together. For disabled people who want to stay in our homes and communities, receiving the care that often keeps us alive, Medicaid is the primary way to receive home and community based services in this country.

For parents who want their disabled or medically complex children to live in their homes, Medicaid is the lifeline that makes it possible. For older adults who want to age together in their homes, Medicaid provides the guarantee that they can remain together.

Medicaid keeps people alive. @CenterOnBudget showed that Medicaid saved the lives of at least 19,000 people from 2014-2017, just because of expansion. Fewer older adults passed away following Medicaid expansion.
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But in the #DebtCeiling negotiations, Republicans are proposing to cut Medicaid, to strip health care and home care away, to leave millions of people in a lurch.

We have to #SaveMedicaid.

In 2018, when I was very, very sick and wasn't able to work, I was on my mom's health insurance (Thanks, ACA!) but my partner @LFG_arrett had just finished graduate school, aged out of his parent's insurance, and hadn't started a new job yet.

Medicaid was a lifeline.

Medicaid was there at a time when we were underwater financially and when I was so, so sick that the water kept getting deeper.

Without Medicaid, @LFG_arrett would've either been uninsured or we would have had to spend money we didn't have to cover him.

We have to #SaveMedicaid because Medicaid saves us.