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Around 522,000 West Virginians will receive their health insurance protection from Medicaid, and by 2027 the greatest reductions for Medicaid will be initiated in the history of HB 1 – also known as “Big Beautiful Bill” – and violates a broad swath of families in West Virginia in rural, urban and subordic parts of the state.
We call it Capito Care, because Senator Shelley Moore Capito could have stopped these devastating cuts as a senator of West Virginia and as one of the highest republican senators in our country. Even knows that West Virginia – her voters – is one of the biggest losers. She decided not to protect us or assist us.
Do not believe if you tell you that you only pursue “waste, fraud and abuse” to support Medicaid for the future. Medicaid has mechanisms for dealing with waste and fraud and represents an infinite amount of total expenses.
Medicaid is actually one of the best managed government programs and cheaper than other critical health programs such as Medicare and private health insurance. According to the American Hospital Association. The cost of pro-food is slower than the private insurance costs are increased according to long-term information Center for budget and political priorities.
And what they do not tell them is the relevant fraud, which is generally affected by companies, and not just people who only try to have access to health care.
If you pursue waste, fraud and abuse, is that really the goal, why not implement these guidelines now and not in 2027 – long after the 2026 elections? I will tell you why – because West Virgin and Americans from every area of life do not like the health regulations in this legislative template overwhelming and you hope that we will forget it.
Capito Care decreases the health insurance from West Virginians and makes it more exorbitant and challenging to register for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – obstacles that drastically raise the rate of non -insured West Virginians.
For example, up-to-date requirements for the work of Medicaid over 110,000 West Virginians in the Medicaid Expansion Population, a largely working population whose employers without health insurance do not offer employer group health care. It is a documented fact that 62% of the West Virginians inscribed in Medicaid. The majority of others either take care of a high -ranking family member at home, is hindered or attended college or a commercial school.
Technical and administrative errors were widely documented in states such as Georgia and Arkansas, whose work requirements failed miserably. Hard up-to-date work requirements will lead to justified West Virginians who are refused to maintain care due to paperwork.
In addition, Capito Care can not continue the extended premium tax credits that assist families and petite business owners with low and medium-sized incomes, which affect health insurance, which leads to exploding premium costs for West Virginians. For example, a 60-year-old West Virginia couple would see $ 82,000 Annual premiums for a benchmark plan Increase $ 6,970 to over $ 46,839. An additional 16,000 West Virginians Could lose health insurance due to the high premium costs as a whole
Capito Care will reduce more than 6 billion US dollars to rural hospitals in the mountain state in the next decade. According to national research, up to 10 hospitals in West Virginia and three nursing homes could be susceptible to closure in the next few years due to these drastic cuts.
In West Virginia, Medicaid covers 77% of residents in qualified care facilities. 46% of the births; 45% of children; 51% of adults at working age with disabilities; and 19% of the Medicare beneficiaries. Overall, these deep cuts against Medicaid could lead to more than 200,000 West virginians lose access to health care.
And strap up because our local economy will also suffer. We don’t talk enough about it, but the health sector is the largest employer in the state of West Virginia. Who believes that the closure of 10 rural hospitals and three qualified care facilities supports “Medicaid for future generations”?
The conclusion is: Capito Care leads to an affordability crisis. If less federal financing is accompanied, this means that fewer people can afford health care and cannot afford to see their doctor. Hospitals will incur uncompensate care, since diseased patients are dependent on emergency rooms to treat chronic diseases. Fewer people with health insurance lead to fewer jobs in the healthcare industry – in which we all live and that we share.
Capito Care will trigger an economic spiral downwards in West Virginia.
After the draft law is the law, Senator Capito and the rest of the congress delegation in West Virginia must now fully have the consequences. They got rid of it, even though West Virginians and the American people overwhelmly disapproved of these cuts.
If our premium tips and expenses raise, we will remember your voice. If we have fewer treatment options, we remember your voice. If our reporting is torn away by unaffordable reporting, we will remember your voice. When the nursing home, which takes care of our parents and grandparents, becomes unaffordable or even closes, we will remember your voice. If the death ads are piling up because people can no longer afford the care they need to stay alive, we will remember their voice.
Senator Capito and the West Virginia congress delegation have to respond to the Fallout. I will not “get over”, as Kentucky’s Senior Senator Mitch McConnell said, and they shouldn’t because the consequences are too devastating and generations will take to withdraw.
