A dozen advocates from STIC joined a good-sized demonstration at the Federal Building in downtown Binghamton on June 30 urging the House and Senate to reject the irresponsible, catastrophic, trillion dollar Medicaid cuts in the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill.
These cuts, so radical and wide-ranging that they're hard to wrap one's head around, threaten home care; nursing care; millions of jobs; hospitals, especially invaluable and irreplaceable rural ones; roughly a quarter of Americans relying on Medicaid for some or all of their health care; state budgets...I could go on, but basically the only people certain to benefit from this comprehensively awful, cruel, destructive bill are bankruptcy attorneys and funeral directors.
Among the hardest hit of the states will be our home state of New York, due partly to the way New York has structured its Medicaid program, and also because of the diversity of the state. New York, contrary to some stereotypes, includes some of both the most urban and most rural districts in the nation, which create funding and coverage challenges met in different ways.
We urge you to contact your elected officials, especially if they are in the majority party, and exhort them to oppose this disastrous legislation.