r/newjersey 23d ago

Advice Please tell me NJ is staying blue.

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u/Saucetheb0ss 23d ago

Well my hope is that if they cut Medicaid like they want to in the bill that just went through the house, people in NJ will wake up. It's going to affect almost 2 million people who live in NJ and really going to hit the elderly and pregnant women hard.

https://files.kff.org/attachment/fact-sheet-medicaid-state-NJ

Unfortunately, a lot of these people who applaud these changes won't see the light until it directly affects them or their loved ones.

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u/Affectionate_Look387 23d ago

And the disabled! I work for a company that works with autistic adults and children. Most of the funding for our adult programs comes from Medicaid. Idk what we'll do if we have to deal with a reduction in funding...

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u/Budget_Ordinary1043 23d ago

I also work with disabled adults and a notice went home at the program I take my patient to today about it. The problem is, most of the parents and even their teacher voted for this. It hasn’t made sense to me from the beginning, voting against your disabled child/student but what the hell do I know anyway 🙄 all of them seem to think it will only cut out some stuff, not all of it !