Chicago (WLS) – Federal, state and local leaders spoke against the proposed Medicaid discounts at an event in the northwestern Chicago team on Saturday morning.
The proposal to solve the federal budget -backed by the Republic includes a 25 % reduction in Medicaid financing, which provides insurance for disabled Americans or is considered low -income.
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More than one in five Americans depend on Medicaid Health Insurance.
Officials say nearly a million Illinois residents, many of whom come from societies less than services and minorities, are at risk of covering coverage.
“Do not survive Medicaid. We are all together.”
One out of four people in her area depends on Medicid. Many of them are children and the elderly.
“People will die,” Ramirez said. “Safi safety hospitals will be forced. Community health centers will have to close.”
The budget that calls for a luxurious medicaid was explicitly lowering house 217 to 215.
According to Medicare and Medicaid centers, Medicaid includes home nursing care and personal care services, as well as helping to pay the price of insurance premiums.
Discounts in these programs can show that weakened Americans at the risk of medical care loss.
“These cuts are the difference between life and death. Let's not be in confusion. Jesse Fuentes.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker spoke of the case on Friday, saying that the consequences of proposed cuts would cut the state's health care system.
“Hospitals will close. People will lose their jobs. Illinois do everything we can to enhance access to health care. We have reached access and made registration easier in MEDICAID. We have invested in health care infrastructure,” said Pritzker.
At the press conference on Saturday morning, Jose Sanchez, President of Humboldt Park Health, Jose Sanchez, said that people can expect longer waiting times in the emergency room if these cuts are approved.
“Possible cuts and influence in our society will be very dangerous, I would like to say,” Sanchez said. “The worst scenario is that we lose more than 10 million dollars. All our net security hospitals are struggling. Some of them cannot even make salary statements while speaking.”
Sanchez says 70-80 % of net hospitals revenue comes from medicaid while these hospitals are already struggling.
Joe Cobira, the Chicago citizen, attended the press conference in solidarity.
He says that his loved ones may lose their health care with this society. They may feel the permanent consequences.
“This hospital will not survive if these cuts continue in medical aid,” said Cobira.
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