Article 6VM20 Medicaid recipients fear ‘buzzsaw cuts’ for Trump’s agenda: ‘We’re not going to be alive forever’

Medicaid recipients fear ‘buzzsaw cuts’ for Trump’s agenda: ‘We’re not going to be alive forever’

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Chris Stein in Washington
from US news | The Guardian on (#6VM20)

To pay for $4.5tn in tax cuts and mass deportations, the GOP plans to roll back the federal healthcare insurance program

At the age of 62, Marya Parral knows that her, and her husband's, years of being able to care for their two developmentally disabled sons are numbered, and so they have done everything they can to ensure their children can continue to live independently.

For their oldest, Ian, that's meant placing him in a program on an organic farm that caters to people diagnosed with autism. For Joey, their youngest, who has both autism and Down syndrome, Parral has found a caregiver who can help him deliver newspapers and run errands around their community of Ocean City, New Jersey.

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