UAW Action Guide: Promises Made, Promises Broken—Medicaid Cuts Are Looming
UAW VALUES
In our union, we talk about four core issues that matter most to working families—a livable wage, affordable health care, retirement security, and time to live a full life outside of work. This bill fails on every count:
- It means millions of families will lose health care.
- It means millions of kids will be hungrier because of the largest cut in history to food assistance.
- It means millions of people are not able to afford to live, let alone live well.
- It’s a gift to billionaires and corporations—and a betrayal of the working class.
Trump and Senate Republicans’ extreme bill delivers pain to workers while rewarding the billionaire class. Anyone who claims to stand with workers should see this bill for what it is—a disaster.
THE FACTS
FACT: The bill will kick 17 million Americans off of Medicaid —ripping health care away from the most vulnerable and making it more expensive for us all—so the rich can get even richer.
There will be over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, including:
- Limits on long-term care eligibility based on home equity values, which could threaten access to long- term care coverage for UAW retirees in areas with high housing costs.
- Approximately 17 million people could lose health insurance: estimates indicate that 11.8 million people would lose health insurance due to Medicaid cuts, and approximately 5.1 million would become uninsured because of Republicans’ failure to extend the Affordable Care Act.
- The top 20% of income earners will see an average of $6,055 in tax cuts while raising the debt limit by $5 billion, all this while still cutting our health care.
TAKE ACTION: WE MUST STOP THIS GIANT GIVEAWAY TO BILLIONAIRES
UAW MEMBERS: CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE NOW!
- Working-class people are fed up with a political system that does not meet our basic needs. I don’t want to see millions of people—including my family, friends, and neighbors—kicked off of their health care.
- Ask them: Which side are you on? Are you siding with the billionaires or with workers? I am a UAW member, and I am demanding you VOTE NO on the final passage of this budget bill.