Sixty % of youngsters who’ve misplaced their medical insurance reside in 9 crimson states the place Republicans have both put into place or are advocating for harsh abortion restrictions to guard kids.
In letters despatched Monday to the governors of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Dakota and Texas, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra urged the states to take up extra of the 400 choices CMS has supplied to make sure protection. The choices embody permitting states to make use of enrollee data they need to auto-renew protection.
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“Because all children deserve to have access to comprehensive health coverage, I urge you to ensure that no child in your state who still meets eligibility criteria for Medicaid or CHIP loses their health coverage due to ‘red tape’ or other avoidable reasons as all states ‘unwind’ from the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision that was in place during much of the COVID-19 public health emergency,” Becerra wrote.
In response to HHS, the 9 states are liable for 60 % of youngsters’s protection losses between March and September.
New Hampshire voted for Joe Biden but it surely has a Republican governor and legislature. Each state within the record above shares the frequent trait of Republican management on the state degree.
These similar Republicans who declare that they’re ‘protecting children’ by taking the rights of girls to regulate their very own well being care are additionally taking away medical insurance from kids who’ve already been born and are very a lot alive.
Coverage choices like taking away healthcare from youngsters lend credibility to the declare that Republicans cease caring about kids as soon as they’re born.
Kate Cox had to flee Texas for an abortion to save her own health and well-being, however youngsters within the state have been thrown off of Medicaid.
Republicans are hypocrites. In the event that they care about kids as they declare to, they need to care about all kids, not simply those that can drive ladies to present beginning to by taking away their rights.
Children can’t go get a job and get protection from their employer. Republicans in these 9 states are actively harming the well being of youngsters.
There is just one political social gathering in america that’s making an attempt to assist households and youngsters, and it isn’t the Republicans.
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