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Your Voice Needed: Tell your governor to defend Medicaid funding

Access to health care coverage is a lifesaver for families and our economy. We are working to ensure every family has access to quality affordable health care coverage because no one should have to choose between paying for groceries or housing and paying their medical bills. Whether you’ve struggled to pay for your insulin or have been impacted from COVID-19, everyone should have access to quality and affordable healthcare.

People are often surprised to hear that even a physician can end up on Medicaid...but I’m a great example that it can happen to anyone. I’m 32 years old, married, with two small children and I am a family physician. In January of this year, right at the beginning of a new plan year and new...Read more
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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care MomsRising Parenting & Families Podcast

"Breaking Through:Why Everyone from Domestic Workers to Birth Workers Needs Medicaid. Organizing Locally for Child Care. Another Bipartisan Program Under Attack."

04/21/25
On the radio show this week, we dive into how your health care stories have helped sway Republican – yes Republican — lawmakers to protect Medicaid, and why everyone needs to be in this fight for Medicaid Next, we hear about a campaign in New York to rally state and federal efforts to improve child...
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Electing Women is Protecting Women, Medicaid Matters to Moms, Busting Myths About Immigrant Families, Black Maternal Health Week.

04/14/25
On the radio show this week, we dive into the importance of electing women, and how political parity protects us from dangerous policies, like the current move by Republicans to strip millions of women of our right to vote. We hear about how MomsRising is bringing the over 1.2 million voices of our...
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Tell Congress: Hands off our Medicaid!
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Quick Signature: Hands off our Medicaid!

04/14/25
"My adopted son, who is now 7 years old, is autistic and has ADHD. He receives Medicaid because of his adoption. My husband and I are both on fixed incomes due to being 100% disabled veterans… Medicaid is our saving grace for our son.” ―Victoria in Sierra Vista, AZ Quick signature! Medicaid cuts...
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Breaking Through: Busting Negative Republican Myths About Immigrant Families. How Care Policies Boost Our Economy. Saving K-12 Education. Glimmers of Hope on the Horizon.

04/07/25
On the radio show this week, we bust the negative myths that Republicans are pushing out about immigrant families; we discuss how care policies (like childcare, healthcare/Medicaid, and paid family/medical leave) boost our economy; we cover how K-12 education is under attack and the ways to fight...
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Breaking Through: Medicaid and Childcare Under Attack. Addressing The Maternal Health Emergency. Direct File Tool for Your Taxes

03/31/25
On the radio show this week we cover the problems with the damaging effects of the proposed cuts to Medicaid; the latest with the maternal health emergency in America; how access to childcare is under attack; and how to use a no cost direct file tool for your taxes. Special Guests include: Joan...
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Large cuts to Medicaid funding put rural communities and their health care systems at serious risk
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Medicaid is Under Threat—And Rural Communities Have the Most at Stake

03/28/25
Health care access for more than 72 million people in the United States is under threat. As Congress moves to cut spending across the board, critical Medicaid funding is on the chopping block—we’re looking at up to $880 billion in cuts—which would impact those in small town and rural communities...
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We Need Your Voice: Tell Your Governor to Defend Medicaid Funding

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/45783/?source=action">We Need Your Voice: Tell Your Governor to Defend Medicaid Funding</a>

Republicans in Congress are pushing for massive tax breaks for the rich and think we should pay for them by cutting Medicaid, putting millions of people at risk of losing healthcare coverage. Tell your governor to speak out to protect Medicaid!

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Your Voice Needed: Tell your governor to defend Medicaid funding

Tell Congress: Power moms - Pass care policies in honor of Mother’s Day!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/39710/?source=action">Tell Congress: Power moms - Pass care policies in honor of Mother’s Day!</a>

This Mother’s Day, as we celebrate the many, many ways that moms power the U.S. (and all of us!), we’re calling on Congress to power moms by passing care policies!

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Tell Congress: Power moms - Pass care policies in honor of Mother’s Day!

Quick signature: Tell Congress to cap the cost of EpiPens!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/36406/?source=action">Quick signature: Tell Congress to cap the cost of EpiPens!</a>

Right now, our country faces an affordability crisis as some patients are paying more than $600 per EpiPen, a life-saving emergency drug. Tell Congress to cap the cost of EpiPens! #PeopleOverProfits

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Tell Congress to cap the cost of EpiPens!

TELL CONGRESS: Now is the time to invest in Maternal Mental Health!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/27159/?source=action">TELL CONGRESS: Now is the time to invest in Maternal Mental Health!</a>

Low diagnosis & treatment rates of maternal mental health conditions contribute to making suicide a leading cause of death for new moms. Urge our leaders to support legislation that addresses this crisis before the end of the Congressional year!

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Urge Congress to fund moms' mental health resources before they go into recess!