Sixty % of youngsters who’ve misplaced their medical insurance reside in 9 purple states the place Republicans have both put into place or are advocating for harsh abortion restrictions to guard youngsters.
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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“As a result of all youngsters need to have entry to complete well being protection, I urge you to make sure that no baby in your state who nonetheless meets eligibility standards for Medicaid or CHIP loses their well being protection because of ‘purple tape’ or different avoidable causes as all states ‘unwind’ from the Medicaid steady enrollment provision that was in place throughout a lot of the COVID-19 public well being emergency,” Becerra wrote.
In keeping with HHS, the 9 states are chargeable for 60 % of youngsters’s protection losses between March and September.
New Hampshire voted for Joe Biden nevertheless it has a Republican governor and legislature. Each state within the record above shares the frequent trait of Republican management on the state stage.
These similar Republicans who declare that they’re ‘defending youngsters’ by taking the rights of ladies to regulate their very own well being care are additionally taking away medical insurance from youngsters who’ve already been born and are very a lot alive.
Coverage choices like taking away healthcare from children lend credibility to the declare that Republicans cease caring about youngsters as soon as they’re born.
Kate Cox needed to flee Texas for an abortion to avoid wasting her personal well being and well-being, however children within the state have been thrown off of Medicaid.
Republicans are hypocrites. In the event that they care about youngsters as they declare to, they need to care about all youngsters, not simply those that can power girls to provide 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 occasion in america that’s attempting to assist households and kids, and it isn’t the Republicans.
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