Alternative Headline: Disabled Families Fear Medicaid Cuts
[MM Curator Summary]: Medicaid cuts may endanger critical home care services for disabled Americans despite federal claims to the contrary.
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The White House says roughly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts won’t limit home- and community-based care. Health care experts disagree.
It takes round-the-clock care to keep 10-year-old June Rice alive.
Her ileostomy bag needs to be emptied multiple times a day, and the exposed end of her intestine must be inspected. Her body has to be regularly repositioned in her wheelchair so that she won’t get sores. Her saliva needs to be suctioned from her mouth to prevent aspiration, and her food and medication must be administered through a gastric tube.
June has rare diseases that affect her intestines and brain. Her parents do what they can for her, but they have jobs and two other children — they can’t do it all. What allows June to live at home, go to school and hang out with friends is a Medicaid program in Utah that provides in-home nurses, a type of benefit called home- and community-based care.
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