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When Women Lose Medicaid, We All Pay the Price - Ms.
No one plans for a crisis: a complicated pregnancy, a sudden illness or a parent who needs care after a dementia diagnosis. These things happen to women every day, they are part of modern American life. That’s what Medicaid is for—to support families with essential care, especially working families caught in life’s unpredictability.
Now, Congress is debating cuts that would gut Medicaid and set women back, threatening our health, economic well-being and futures. But the harm won’t stop there.
Women make up the majority of Medicaid recipients—more than 31 million women utilize Medicaid for healthcare. That’s because women are more likely to be caregivers and more likely to need long-term care as they age.
Plus, Medicaid covers more than 40 percent of births in the U.S. (as of 2024) and some states provide postpartum coverage—which can help address the dangerous maternal mortality crisis that ravages low income communities and puts Black women at particular risk.
Women are also more likely to experience poverty due to barriers often outside of their control, including labor discrimination, wage gaps and unpaid caregiving responsibilities.
Now, Congress is debating cuts that would gut Medicaid and set women back, threatening our health, economic well-being and futures. But the harm won’t stop there.
Women make up the majority of Medicaid recipients—more than 31 million women utilize Medicaid for healthcare. That’s because women are more likely to be caregivers and more likely to need long-term care as they age.
Plus, Medicaid covers more than 40 percent of births in the U.S. (as of 2024) and some states provide postpartum coverage—which can help address the dangerous maternal mortality crisis that ravages low income communities and puts Black women at particular risk.
Women are also more likely to experience poverty due to barriers often outside of their control, including labor discrimination, wage gaps and unpaid caregiving responsibilities.
https://msmagazine.com/2025/04/03/congress-medicaid-cuts-women-healthcare-caregiver-hospital/
