Urgent: Go on Record — Medicaid Cuts Are Hurting Our Communities

I’m writing to express strong opposition to the Medicaid provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). While now law, its devastating consequences are just beginning to surface, and I urge you to go on record acknowledging the harm it’s causing in our communities. These provisions betray Medicaid’s mission: to provide health care to children, rural seniors, veterans, postpartum mothers, and people with disabilities. My concerns with OBBBA include: — New work requirements that will drop coverage for people not due to unwillingness to work, but due to caregiving, disability, unstable jobs, or lack of transportation — 6-month eligibility checks that create unnecessary red tape, administrative waste that is costly to all Americans, and mass procedural disenrollments, even for eligible enrollees. — Severe limits on state flexibility, capping tools that states use to fund care and stabilize hospitals. This is costly federal micromanagement that undermines states’ control. I respectfully urge you to: 1. Call for public oversight hearings on OBBBA’s impacts. 2. Press CMS to implement the law in the most protective, humane way possible. 3. Publicly commit to revisiting and amending its most harmful provisions. Medicaid is an overwhelmingly popular, highly effective program that serves as a lifeline to 80 million Americans, including millions in our own community. As your constituent, I ask you to protect Medicaid and oppose policies that harm our health and dignity. I will be closely watching related legislative actions in the months ahead.