New Mexico governor says potential GOP cuts to Medicaid would 'destroy health care as we know it'

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Source: Yahoo! News/The Hill

Sun, May 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM EDT


New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) on Sunday blasted Republican efforts to reduce Medicaid funding, saying potential cuts would “destroy health care as we know it.” “This is very simply an effort to destroy health care as we know it, to rip it away from everyday Americans, make it more costly for everybody else,” Lujan Grisham said in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”

The Democratic governor warned that potential cuts would have far-reaching consequences across the country. “It will close hospitals — think something like 432 hospitals across the country are on the edge right now. About a third of their funding … or more, comes from Medicaid. So you have less providers who have fewer access points.”

“No state, including this one — no state can take this kind of cost shifting. And you know, businesses then don’t have employees because they don’t have access to health care. It has a huge economic factor that they aren’t talking about, which is outrageous,” she said.

She also noted that “every state,” including her own, “is going to do everything they can to protect the people they are serving,” saying they’ve taken steps to prepare for reductions in federal support.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexico-governor-says-potential-gop-215854944.html?guccounter=1

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1. Isn't the name New America now, instead of New Mexico?

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2. "She

also noted that “every state,” including her own, “is going to do everything they can to protect the people they are serving".

I don't for an instant think that Texas or Florida, for instance, are "doing everything they can to protect the people they are serving. Unless you categorize the "people they are serving" as the wealthy. In my opinion Democratic politicians need to stop giving Republican politicians the benefit of the doubt. No more "this isn't a political issue" when one side is actively striving to make things worse. Democratic politicians could say "this SHOULDN'T be a political issue". But then they need to follow up instantly with "But it IS a political issue because the Republicans are continually acting against resolving this issue."

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3. Good the HC here sux deluxe and if it wasn't clear I doubt we love claim denials and the absurd level of paperwork here?