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November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Massive Medicaid cuts will not automatically create political backlash.
If political parties and movement organizations do not harness the unfolding coverage losses to build political power, the opportunity may soon slip away.
If political parties and movement organizations do not harness the unfolding coverage losses to build political power, the opportunity may soon slip away.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Massive Medicaid cuts will not automatically create political backlash.
If political parties and movement organizations do not harness the unfolding coverage losses to build political power, the opportunity may soon slip away.
If political parties and movement organizations do not harness the unfolding coverage losses to build political power, the opportunity may soon slip away.
Making the most of this opportunity requires reckoning with Medicaid’s political contradictions by building linkages between workers and beneficiaries, forging cross-program solidarity and confronting abuses wrought by privatization.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Making the most of this opportunity requires reckoning with Medicaid’s political contradictions by building linkages between workers and beneficiaries, forging cross-program solidarity and confronting abuses wrought by privatization.
Medicaid is a cornerstone of the US health care system—both a payer for health insurance and a source of stability for regional economies.
Massive coverage losses and economic dislocations create a window of opportunity for building working-class power for universal healthcare.
Massive coverage losses and economic dislocations create a window of opportunity for building working-class power for universal healthcare.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Medicaid is a cornerstone of the US health care system—both a payer for health insurance and a source of stability for regional economies.
Massive coverage losses and economic dislocations create a window of opportunity for building working-class power for universal healthcare.
Massive coverage losses and economic dislocations create a window of opportunity for building working-class power for universal healthcare.
Defense and expansion of Medicaid is the most promising focal point around which to coordinate working-class political mobilization towards delivering universal coverage—as opposed to a similar effort around Medicare or the Affordable Care Act.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Defense and expansion of Medicaid is the most promising focal point around which to coordinate working-class political mobilization towards delivering universal coverage—as opposed to a similar effort around Medicare or the Affordable Care Act.
Our new brief on Medicaid and fight for Universal Health Care in the Trump Aftermath explains the program, Trump’s cuts and why we have unprecedented opportunities to organize a coalition of beneficiaries, healthcare workers and unions to expand Medicaid to universal healthcare.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Our new brief on Medicaid and fight for Universal Health Care in the Trump Aftermath explains the program, Trump’s cuts and why we have unprecedented opportunities to organize a coalition of beneficiaries, healthcare workers and unions to expand Medicaid to universal healthcare.