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Medicaid cuts would devastate the elderly and jobs, says Schumer while visiting NY nursing homes

(31 Mar 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS New York - 31 March 2025 1. Wide of Sen. Chuck Schumer and others at Silver Lake nursing home in Staten Island 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader: “We're here on Staten Island. It is a middle class community. Cuts to Medicaid would devastate Staten Island. First, you know, a lot of people directly get Medicaid, but so many others who are middle class families have parents in facilities like this, in nursing homes, in assisted living facilities. If Medicaid were cut, these facilities would close. The director here told me that if Medicaid is cut, he's going to have to close. What happens to these people? First, a lot of them can't get care at home, the kind of care they get here. And even if they got care at home, is there room in the house? What would the parents do if they're both working?” 3. Schumer with elected officials and hospital administrators 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader: “So we're here to sound the alarm. This is a Republican district, and we need the Republican congressmen throughout the country, the Republican senators throughout the country to tell their leadership don't cut Medicaid. And what makes it even worse - why are they cutting Medicaid? To give billionaires a tax in a tax cut. God bless the billionaires, they're rich enough.” 5. Schumer at podium 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader: “The cuts in Medicaid. It's cruel. Not to mention the jobs. We heard just at the three health care facilities here on Staten Island, there are over 20,000 jobs. People would lose their jobs. Everyone in this community, this community, if Medicaid were cut, the $800 billion that some of the Republican leadership is proposing, it would be devastating for the entire economy. And, of course, you know, the harm it would do to so many families and so many elderly people. So we're here to sound the alarm.” 7. Exterior of Silver Lake nursing home 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader: “And my colleagues in the House and Senate are doing this throughout the country. Public sentiment is everything. When the public learns of this and calls their Congress members and their senators, we believe that many of them could back off.” 9. Silver Lake nursing home STORYLINE: Senator Chuck Schumer is visiting nursing homes in Republican areas of New York, urging voters to contact their elected officials and ask them not to cut medicaid funding. On Monday, Schumer visited Silver Lake nursing home in Staten Island and Carillon Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Long Island and met with local elected officials, health care administrators and voters. Schumer says other Democratic elected officials are making the same nursing home and assisted living facility visits across the country. Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program. Millions more Americans signed up for taxpayer-funded health care coverage like Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace during the Biden administration, a shift lauded by Democrats as a success. To whittle down the budget, the GOP-controlled Congress is eyeing work requirements for Medicaid. It’s also considering paying a shrunken, fixed rate to states. All told, over the next decade, Republican lawmakers could try to siphon billions of dollars from the nearly-free health care coverage offered to the poorest Americans. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...