Continued advocacy
Concerns about Medicaid cuts have reached the state’s Congressional delegation. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Seattle, visited several health care facilities throughout Washington state last month. She also compiled reports that illustrated the impact Medicaid cuts would have on residents of Central and Eastern Washington.
Cantwell said she had heard from numerous health care providers that the health care system in Central Washington “would be devastated by these proposed cuts.”
“I guarantee you: Health clinics would close, hospitals would find it hard to provide care, and as individuals have said here, people just would not get health care,” Cantwell said during a news conference following a roundtable of health care
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