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Medicaid Saves Lives – Sign the Petition to Protect It! I just took action to show my support for Medicaid. Click to do the same and sign the petition!

📣 Everyone deserves the chance to thrive — not just survive. Medicaid helps people with disabilities live independently, but its funding is under threat.

✍️ Sign the petition to protect Medicaid & disability services: bit.ly/4ffINxZ

#DisabilityRights #ProtectMedicaid

Congress is proposing major cuts to disability services.
❌ DD Act programs eliminated
❌ IDEA weakened
❌ Supports slashed

We can’t stay quiet—people with disabilities deserve better.
📢 Tell Congress: fully fund IDEA & the DD Act.
🔗bit.ly/4o2Mivk
#DisabilityRights #FundOurFuture

🕯️ TOMORROW: Join us at the Vigil to Protect MI Care
🕕 6:00 PM
📍 Michigan State Capitol, Lansing

Michiganders across the state depend on this vital program. Let’s come together and demand that lawmakers protect access to care—not take it away.

#ProtectMICare

Medicaid is under threat, and we’re taking a stand. On June 25 at 6 p.m., join us at the Michigan Capitol for a peaceful vigil to protect the health care that millions of Michiganders depend on.

RSVP and make your voice heard: bit.ly/vigiltoprotectmicare

Your neighbor. Your child. Your parent. Medicaid keeps Michiganders healthy – and alive.

Tell Congress: Protect MI Care. Say NO to cuts ➡️ protectmicare.org/take-action

Michiganders across the state rely on Medicaid for the care they need to live healthy lives. Join us at the Vigil to Protect MI Care on June 25 at 6 p.m. as we call on lawmakers to protect Medicaid – not cut it. #ProtectMICare

RSVP and make your voice heard: bit.ly/vigiltoprotectmicare

Medicaid is a lifeline for millions in Michigan.

Cutting it isn’t just cruel – it’s dangerous.


✊Tell Congress to Protect MI care and say NO to Medicaid cuts:
protectmicare.org/take-action/

2025 Policy Webinar - Michigan Register now to join us on Fridays in June Get the latest updates from state and national leaders on Medicaid, behavioral health, and disability policy. Stay informed on the changes that matter most to you. June 6, 2025 Handouts (presentation slides) Department of Education Helps Students With Disabilities. Don't Let It Disappear | Opinion 5

🎥 Missed last Friday’s Policy Webinar?
No worries—you can catch up anytime! Full session recordings and downloadable handouts are now available at:
👉 zurl.co/0uqQZ
📅 Tune in this Friday for the next session in our series
Stay informed, stay involved. 💬

Cuts with Consequences Cutting Medicaid puts infants, toddlers, and young children at risk.

"We love our daughter with an extra chromosome."

🚨 Here, this new fact sheet details exactly how the proposed cuts to #Medicaid put children with disabilities at risk—and why parents like Jeralyn from Utah are deeply concerned for the future of the services they depend on to care for their child.

Health care is under attack. If Planned Parenthood is defunded, nearly 200 clinics could close & 1.1M patients could lose care. We won’t stand by. Say it loud: I’m for Planned Parenthood. I’ll fight for our bodies, lives, and futures. #ImForPP

📚 The Department of Education helps students with disabilities learn, grow, and get the support they need.

Some want to shut it down—but that would hurt millions of kids.

📰 Read why we need to protect it:
🔗 zurl.co/zAmbE

#DisabilityRights #EducationForAll #TheArcMichigan

🛑 Work requirements don’t help—they hurt.

📖 The National Health Law Program breaks down the top 10 reasons why work requirements should not be added to Medicaid: zurl.co/NISDw

2025 Policy Webinar - Michigan Register now to join us on Fridays in June Get the latest updates from state and national leaders on Medicaid, behavioral health, and disability policy. Stay informed on the changes that matter most to you. June 6, 2025 Handouts (presentation slides) Department of Education Helps Students With Disabilities. Don't Let It Disappear | Opinion 5

🎥 Missed last Friday’s Policy Webinar?
No worries—you can catch up anytime! Full session recordings and downloadable handouts are now available at:
👉 zurl.co/0uqQZ
📅 Tune in this Friday for the next session in our series
Stay informed, stay involved. 💬

5 Key Facts About Medicaid Work Requirements | KFF Work requirements in Medicaid have resurfaced as part of a broader legislative package of potential changes to Medicaid designed to significantly reduce federal Medicaid spending. This brief highlights five key facts about Medicaid work requirements, including the share of Medicaid enrollees who currently work, what research shows about the impact of work requirements, and the administrative burdens associated with implementing them.

Most Medicaid enrollees already work or qualify for exemptions—and research shows work requirements mostly lead to lost coverage, not higher employment.
🔗 www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-b...

The House budget cuts $1T+ from Medicaid & SNAP while funding immigrant detention. It denies Medicare to lawful immigrants & strips the Child Tax Credit from 4.5M citizen kids. This is cruel & unjust. Tell the Senate: reject this bill now.
👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Opinion | The safety net is fraying: Emergency care in jeopardy across Michigan | Bridge Michigan Medicaid isn’t a fringe benefit for the few — it’s a critical lifeline for millions. And it’s a key part of the financial foundation for hospitals that serve our most at-risk communities. But that fou...

Opinion: The safety net is fraying: Emergency care in jeopardy across Michigan www.bridgemi.com/guest-commen... via @bridgemi.com

A collage of four black-and-white photos showing people with disabilities and their supports in everyday settings. Top left: An older adult using a cane receives support from a caregiver. Top right: A young woman smiles and uses sign language. Bottom left: A therapist and child build a block tower together. Bottom right: A man in a wheelchair uses a tablet while talking with a coworker in a warehouse.

Think Medicaid is just for doctor visits? Think again.

- The wheelchair that helps someone get to work
- The personal aide that allows someone to live within their own home
- The therapy that helps a child speak their first words

Tell Congress NO CUTS today: ow.ly/rMYr50VV2v9

The Invisible Workforce:
How Medicaid Work Requirements
Overlook the Labor of Family Caregiving
www.caregiving.org/wp-content/u...

Which States Would Be Affected by a House Proposal to Cut Federal Medicaid Funding for States That Cover Undocumented Immigrants? KFF data show that as of April 2025, 14 states plus DC use state-only dollars to provide health coverage to children regardless of immigration status, including 7 states that also do so for at least s...

www.kff.org/quick-take/w...

Top 10 Reasons Why House Republicans’ Work Requirement Proposal Will Harm Low-Income People - National Health Law Program House Republicans are proposing a new kind of work requirement in their reconciliation bill – more radical and punishing…

healthlaw.org/resource/top...

Michigan advocates fear ‘devastating’ impact of Trump education cuts as students continue to fall behind As vulnerable students continue to fall behind, advocates want the state to invest more in programs they say will benefit them.

Michigan advocates call for more state education funding as ‘devastating’ federal cuts are proposed www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2025... www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2025...

School Vouchers 101 – MLPP

✅ New Fact Sheet: School Vouchers 101

Did you know that no statewide voucher bill has ever passed when decided by voters?

Learn more about Michigan’s education system in our latest fact sheet by Education Policy Analyst @alexandra-stamm.bsky.social

💯 Get the facts: mlpp.org/school-vouch...

Purple graphic with white text that features a large "19%" and a donut chart that shows 19%. The text says "Medicaid accounted for 19% of all spending on hospital care in 2023, or $283 billion out of the $1.5 trillion spent on hospital care." Source is KFF's 5 Key Facts About Medicaid and Hospitals.

Medicaid accounted for 19% of all spending on hospital care in 2023, or $283 billion out of $1.5 trillion.

Absorbing cuts in Medicaid spending could be challenging for hospitals and may accelerate the pace of hospital closures, including in rural areas. on.kff.org/41HDoKR

At least 13.7m people uninsured as a result of #Medicaid cuts and decision not to extend expiring premium tax credits for people in the #ACA marketplace. democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Eliminating the Medicaid Expansion Federal Match Rate: State-by-State Estimates | KFF This analysis examines the potential impacts on states and Medicaid enrollees of eliminating the 90% federal match rate for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expansion. Eliminating the federal match rate ...

Eliminating the Medicaid Expansion Federal Match Rate: State-by-State Estimates www.kff.org/9043486/

Georgia’s Medicaid Experiment Is the Latest to Show Work Requirements Restrict Health Care Access | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities As Republicans at the federal level prepare to take over majorities in both the House and Senate, some have proposed deeply damaging cuts to Medicaid, including taking health coverage away from...

www.cbpp.org/blog/georgia... Georgia’s Medicaid Experiment Is the Latest to Show Work Requirements Restrict Health Care Access

Michigan physicians and health care providers underscore concerns on federal cuts to Medicaid arcmi.org?p=19075

Rolling Back Biden-Era Medicaid Rules Would Hurt Beneficiaries And Increase Costs | Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

When we come together, we have the tools and power to #ProtectMedicaid. We're calling on Congress to prioritize the needs of everyday families over the needs of ultra-rich billionaires! Tune in to the 24-hour Medicaid vigil from DC: https://www.youtube.com/live/tBo00pL1wbE