Medicaid Cuts: Why Every Family Should Be Paying Attention

How Proposed Changes Could Impact You, Even If You Don't Think They Will

This isn’t the first time making cuts to Medicaid has been on the table, and it won’t be the last. The Republican party has wanted to reduce funding to safety nets like Medicaid and SNAP for as long as I can remember (going back to 1976 and Reagan’s “welfare queen” comments).

Every state has a Medicaid program, although it may have a different name. Fo…