On January 8, 2025, 134 members of the National Coalition for Gender Justice in Health Policy and allied organizations called on Congress to protect Medicaid from any cuts, such as per capita caps, block grants, work requirements, Medicaid expansion elimination or disincentives, Federal Medical Assistance Percentages or benefit cuts, or provider tax restrictions. Any cuts to Medicaid would leave millions of women and LGBTQI+ people with low incomes, and particularly women and LGBTQI+ people of color and with disabilities, without health care coverage and access. They would increase barriers to sexual, reproductive, and transgender health care access at a time when this essential care is less and less accessible. These cuts would jeopardize individuals’ health, lives, and economic security; widen gender and intersecting health inequities; destabilize the workforce by making it harder for people to stay employed; and catalyze deeply harmful economic losses for state economies.
Medicaid is particularly critical for people with disabilities as it provides essential health coverage such as preventative, primary, and specialty care, prescription drugs, medical equipment, and long-term services and supports as well as home and community-based services, school-based services and more. We urge members of Congress to protect Medicaid and oppose all attempts to cut the program.
The letter is available to view on the National Health Law Program website.