Congressman Chris Deluzio (D-Allegheny) warns that the Republican Party’s Medicaid cuts will harm rural Pennsylvania and force hospitals, nursing homes, and senior centers to close in order to pay for President Donald Trump’s tax cuts.

US House Republicans passed a budget bill on Thursday that cuts Medicaid by $698 billion, with all of Pennsylvania’s nine congressional republicans voting in favor of the bill.

Medicaid provides 2 million Pennsylvania adults and 1.4 million children with health insurance, and it covers 34% of all births in the state. It also helps 400,000 seniors cover nursing home or home care costs.

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Sue Bosco, an employee at the Pennsylvania Department of Health, warned that the US House Republicans’ Medicare cuts will devastate working families in order to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.

Bosco joined union members and other protesters outside of Congressman Scott Perry’s office in Harrisburg on Monday to raise awareness that the Republican budget would cut Medicaid by $615 billion and make President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts for the ultra wealthy permanent.

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, there are over 180,000 constituents in Perry’s district alone that rely on Medicaid for healthcare coverage. Across the commonwealth, there are over 3 million Pennsylvanians that receive health care coverage through the program.

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Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-Philadelphia) called out US House Republicans for putting the health care of more than 13 million Americans at risk in order to pay for tax cuts for the ultra rich during a Ways and Means Committee meeting late on Tuesday.

US House Republicans introduced a budget bill that cuts Medicaid by $715 billion, and according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office, at least 8.6 million Americans will lose their health care because of cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

An additional 5.1 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care if Republicans refuse to extend tax credits to make the ACA more affordable.

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Cannabis prohibition doesn’t work and is a public health crisis, according to State Rep. Arvind Venkat (D-Allegheny).

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