At a March 24 panel, CMS Administrator Dr. Oz claimed that “the real problem [with] Medicaid--let's be clear--is not too many hernia operations. The real problem in Medicaid is that we are paying for things that your family used to do for you.” 🧵 #ProtectMedicaid #HCBS

Die cut political sticker reading Cutting Medicaid Is Murder in bold red and blue lettering representing healthcare activism and opposition to Medicaid cuts from The Defiant Dog political sticker collection

When politicians talk about cutting Medicaid, they call it “spending reductions.”

For the people who rely on it for medication, treatment, and survival… it’s something else entirely.

#Medicaid #HealthcareForAll #ProtectMedicaid #PoliticalActivism #Resist #DemocracyMatters #StopFascism #Progressive

For millions of disabled people, Medicaid enables them to live a fully independent life — with dignity and in their communities. It enables them not just to live, but to thrive.

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Restructuring Medicaid into block grants will jeopardize coverage for 72 million people, including seniors and the disabled. Shifting costs to states is a back-door way to force massive cuts to eligibility and life-saving benefits. 👵♿ #ProtectMedicaid #HealthcareRights

Health Advocates Letter to Congress: Fund Health Care, Not Attacks on Immigrants and Communities At a time when health care costs are skyrocketing, Congress should be supporting communities by strengthening Medicaid, restoring and extending enhanced premium tax credits for Marketplace coverage, a...

TODAY Congress is planning to vote on DHS funding. Keep calling!

Defund ICE. Defund War. Fund Care. 🗣️

Read the complete letter 👇 #ProtectMedicaid @nhelp.bsky.social healthlaw.org/resource/hea...

The solution is straightforward: Congress must protect Medicaid funding and preserve the services that make caregiving safe and possible.”

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We need to keep fighting to #ProtectMedicaid!

Thanks to my @ag.state.mn.us! Using me and others with disabilities as pawns in this game is just plain wrong. justinsmithwrites.com/2026/03/01/i...
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Health Advocates Letter to Congress: Fund Health Care, Not Attacks on Immigrants and Communities At a time when health care costs are skyrocketing, Congress should be supporting communities by strengthening Medicaid, restoring and extending enhanced premium tax credits for Marketplace coverage, a...

Last week, 141 health advocacy organizations and allies led by Parenthood Action Fund and the National Health Law Program sent a letter to Congress urging them to fund health care over ICE and CBP's attacks on immigrants and communities. #DHSVote #ProtectMedicaid
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We know that care is the foundation of our lives. That is why today, and every day, we do all that we can to uplift and center care in our communities—and demand that our leaders protect it. Protect care. #ProtectMedicaid. 💜

#ProtectMedicaid means protecting lives. This is beyond shameful.

Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns, as part of what he described as ...

🚨 If the administration can freeze Medicaid funds in Minnesota, what stops them from doing it to #Kentucky next? MN is losing access to over $2B in federal Medicaid money after an “unprecedented” halt. Our safety net would collapse. #KYDeservesBetter #ProtectMedicaid
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Quick signature: Tell Congress to cancel the cuts to health care and pass the Protecting Health Care And Lowering Costs Act! Our health care just took a major hit. No administration has ever slashed health care as deeply as the budget bill Republicans passed this month and President Trump signed into law—and it’s all to giv...

Quick signature: Tell Congress to cancel the cuts to health care and pass the Protecting Health Care And Lowering Costs Act! #ProtectMedicaid action.momsrising.org/sign/2025_ca...

Medicaid work requirements will particularly hurt unpaid caregivers Big, impending changes to Medicaid will quietly but profoundly decimate the unpaid workforce that already props up our long-term care system.

As we look ahead at the cuts to Medicaid coming…

A #ProtectMedicaid 🧵 1/4

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The political world of caregiving Writer and scholar Laura Mauldin's new book takes on the hidden politics of spousal care.

“We’re already at a crisis point, and now we’re just going to make it worse, so that more disabled people are going to be forced into institutions“

#CareCantWait #ProtectMedicaid www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One Year In, 53 Ways the Second Trump Administration Is Harming Women and Families | National Partnership for Women & Families Amidst a nonstop, chaotic whirlwind of daily breaking news, court decisions and more, the Administration is abusing its power to turn back the clock on rights and protections for hundreds of millions ...

A year in, so many way the federal government’s policies and actions are harming women and families. We’re fighting it all, but especially #8, #15, #49!

Read more from @npwf.bsky.social
#FairPay4HomeCare #ProtectMedicaid #SanctuaryHomes
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‘I’d Be Left Alone’: Medicaid Cuts Put Disabled Patients’ In-Home Care at Risk | KQED After Congress approved roughly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade, California advocates are worried about the future of home-based care covered by Medi-Cal.

“When states are under pressure, they go after HCBS [home- and community-based services] first because they’re optional under federal law”

Californians are facing mounting economic pressures and unprecedented federal threats. #FundMediCal #ProtectMedicaid 🧵 1/2 www.kqed.org/news/1207014...

That’s why we’re still fighting to #ProtectMedicaid. Listen up to HiH’s CA Director, Lindsay Imai Hong on why we were in Sacramento yesterday alongside our members and partners, to urge CA representative to: Be the leaders your constituents need and #FundMediCal! @sdaction.org

Medicaid Changes Could Limit Access For People With Disabilities, Advocates Warn As federal officials begin to outline more stringent Medicaid eligibility rules, worries are running high about what the changes will mean for people with disabilities.

The new year brings with it the anticipation of changes and cuts to Medicaid. For people with disabilities, this could significantly impact the care and support they need to live and thrive in their communities. The fight is not over. #ProtectMedicaid www.disabilityscoop.com/2026/01/05/m...

FREAKIN' FRAIL | #MEAction Sign this letter to HHS Secretary, RFK Jr., so that he includes ME/CFS and Long COVID as “medically frail” in his recommendations for medically frail exemptions.

Read about #MEaction’s Freakin Frail campaign to protect Medicaid here: freakinfrail.org

#ProtectMedicaid #Disability #PwME #MECFS #DisabilityJustice

#ProtectMedicaid #Disability #DisabilitySOS #PwME #MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis

#FreakinFrail #ProtectMedicaid #Medicaid #ChronicIllness #Disability #DisabilitySOS #PwME #MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis

The future of Medicaid is uncertain.
Sharing real stories can help protect access to care for the people who need it most.

Do you have a Medicaid story to share?
👉 Contact us at communications-group@tasc.org

#HandsOffMedicaid #ProtectMedicaid

The holidays are expensive enough… now imagine facing them after losing Medicaid coverage.

Cuts to health-care subsidies cause real harm.
No one should have to choose between a holiday meal and the meds that keep them alive.
#ProtectMedicaid #HealthCareForAll #M4A

Senior citizens will pay a lot more for Medicare in 2026 | CNN Politics Senior citizens are the latest group of Americans to face steep increases in their health insurance premiums for 2026.

#VoteTheBastardsOut
#ProtectMedicare #ProtectMedicaid #ProtectSocialSecurity
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#ProtectMedicaid The next step is the midterm elections.This can determine if the budget bill H.R.1 cuts and ACA subsides will be restored or reversed. It is important to make sure all candidates support Medicaid, Medicare, ACA, and SNAP. It is important to get them on the record about it.

[2] But we’re meeting this disaster head-on. Instead of standing by, we’re continuing to rise for our families, our economy, and our children’s futures.

We must put pressure on Congress to reverse course and save our health care! #ProtectMedicaid
#CanceltheCuts @momsrising.org

Los recortes a Medicaid ponen en riesgo a millones. 💔
¡Exijamos al Congreso que los detenga ya!

#ProtejamosAMedicaid #CancelenLosRecortes #ProtectMedicaid #MomSky

Call and email your members of the North Carolina General Assembly *TODAY* and tell them to fully fund NC's #Medicaid program!

Find your NC House representative and NC Senate senator here: ncleg.gov/FindYourLegi...

#ProtectMedicaid #FullyFundNCMedicaid #ncpol

TELL YOUR PERSONAL STORY! For me, and for 80 million people across the country, Medicaid is a lifeline. The future of our health care is uncertain now that Republicans cut $l trillion from Medicaid and added bureaucratic barriers to accessing care.
#ProtectMedicaid #CanceltheCuts