Congressman Crow Meets with Local Health Providers to Discuss Impact of Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts
AURORA — Today, Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06) held a roundtable with providers at Aurora Mental Health to discuss how congressional Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid would hurt those seeking mental health services in our community.
“We should not be balancing the federal budget on the backs of working Americans. That’s why today I met with local health care providers to discuss how Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid would hurt our community,” said Congressman Crow. “They shared just how drastically this would impact folks seeking mental health services. I will continue to fight against these harmful and reckless cuts.”
The Republican House budget resolution passed by the U.S. House of Representatives instructs the House Energy and Commerce Committee to cut at least $880 billion in costs over the next decade. To make those types of steep cuts, Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, which would threaten health care coverage for 80 million Americans. Republicans are considering these cuts to Medicaid to offer “lucrative tax cuts to corporations and wealthier Americans,” according to the Associated Press.
One in four Coloradans—1.69 million people—get their health care through Medicaid, including children, pregnant women, elderly, and the disabled. In Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District, 115,000 residents get their health care through Medicaid, according to the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.
Congressman Crow has been strongly opposed to cuts that would impact Colorado’s working families, including cuts to Medicaid.