Our community is home to numerous talented, and caring, long term care professionals. Medicaid cuts would cause a ripple effect that would impact many lives and livelihoods.
Please contact your elected officials and remind them that Medicaid Matters.
Article taken from Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities:
The effects of Medicaid cuts will be felt by more than just Medicaid recipients. They will be felt by unpaid caregivers in Wisconsin who are already filling care gaps and who say that caregiving is the main reason they are not in the workforce right now. Medicaid cuts do not change people’s needs, they will just ask more of people who are already making hard choices between work and caring for loved ones. If you are a caregiver, share what Medicaid cuts would mean to you with your representatives. Read the full caregiving fact sheet here: https://wi-bpdd.org/…/Wisconsin_Care_Gaps_Cost_0325…
Photo description: Graphic of Wisconsin with the text: Medicaid cuts hurt unpaid caregivers. More of them will leave Wisconsin’s workforce. Right now, Wisconsin has too few paid caregivers to provide the help that families need. Working unpaid caregivers are stretched to the limit, filling care gaps when there are no paid workers to hire, or no one shows up. Statewide surveys show the paid care worker shortage is impacting Wisconsin families and workforce now. Medicaid cuts will make it worse. Medicaid pays for most long-term care and the salaries of paid care workers. Full-time caregiving is a main reason why adults aren’t working.