Federal funding for disability services is under threat. On Thursday, May 22 the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill that includes the biggest cut to Medicaid ever. The bill now goes to the Senate for a vote.

We need nationwide advocacy to stop these cuts. Please ask your family and friends in every state to contact their Senators today and beseech them to do the right thing: Protect disability services and vote NO on Medicaid cuts. 

Medicaid is the government health program that funds Jubilee’s services for people with disabilities. Half of Jubilee’s budget comes from federal Medicaid dollars. If the bill becomes law, it will mean steep cuts that would hurt people with disabilities supported by Jubilee. 

Please use this form from ANCOR to easily contact your Senators and tell them to keep up the fight in opposing cuts to Medicaid.  

People Jubilee supports rely on Medicaid to cover the costs of their disability services, medical appointments, and medications. Nationwide, a whopping $715 billion in cuts to health care are at risk if the bill becomes law. Here in Maryland, cuts to federal Medicaid mean that the state will be forced to make hard decisions on how it pays Jubilee and funds other disability services. This could mean: 

• People with disabilities could lose access to essential support due to reduced funding for services and new requirements that would make it harder to sign up for and renew eligibility for Medicaid.   
• Frontline staff who work directly with people with disabilities may face pay cuts, which undermines efforts to stop a workforce crisis in the disability field.  
• Budget cuts to federal programs that make housing and groceries affordable for people with disabilities would make it even harder for people to make ends meet.