Medicaid Action Month Foreword

Message From Our Executive Director

Dear friends,

Every April, the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) celebrates Medicaid by raising awareness of the lifesaving program that is Medicaid. This year, as Medicaid faces serious threats, we are going beyond awareness and calling for action. Our collective action to defend Medicaid has never been more critical. 

Congress is rushing to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid to finance tax breaks for corporations and billionaires. The proposals to cut funding through schemes like block grants or per capita caps and to knock people off of the program by imposing work requirements will result in the same devastating outcome: terminating health care for millions of people who can least afford it while ignoring the corporate greed that is driving up costs. This is reckless, and the result will be deadly.

This is a defining moment in the fight for quality, affordable health care for all. Please join NHeLP this month in taking strong action to defend Medicaid.

Here is how you can help:

  • Call your members of Congress and tell them to oppose any budget resolution or legislation that cuts Medicaid, especially when those cuts are being used to fund tax breaks for billionaires and large corporations!
  • Follow NHeLP on social media and share our posts to amplify the message that Medicaid must be protected!
  • Support NHeLP financially so we can reinforce and ramp up our fight for Medicaid in Congress, in the courts, and across the states!

We need your voice, your action, and your support today more than ever. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “The time is always right to do what is right.” That time is now. Let’s do what is right and defend Medicaid.

In Solidarity,

Elizabeth G. Taylor
Executive Director

Defend Medicaid. Act for Health.

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Medicaid is Under Attack—Act Now!

The fight to protect Medicaid has never been more urgent.

Right now, proposals to slash funding, impose harsh work requirements, and restrict eligibility threaten to destroy Medicaid and strip life-saving health care from millions of children, workers, older adults, and families. We won’t stand by while access to care is torn away.

Support NHeLP today to stop the reckless and deadly policies and defend the rights of those who rely on Medicaid to access health care.

For more information, contact our Development Manager, Margaret Okakpu, at okakpu@healthlaw.org.