Rhode Island’s nursing home residents would suffer if Congress cuts Medicaid, Magaziner says

Gregory Strong used to install fiberglass insulation and vinyl siding, and even co-owned a business. But after an accident left him unable to walk and requiring use of a wheelchair, Strong now lives at a nursing home in Providence. 

Medicaid subsidizes Strong’s stay at the Bannister Center. He’s frightened, and more than a little upset, at recent talk that the program might suffer spending cuts at the federal level.

“We’re not a poor country,” Strong said. “We are a rich country, but we need to take care of ourselves first, and for this president to do this, I don’t believe this. This is worse than being in the 1800s.”

Strong shared his story and concerns with reporters after a press conference Friday afternoon, hosted by U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner at the Bannister Center, the latest in Magaziner’s series of rallying cries against the Republican-controlled U.S. government. This time his target was the recent budget resolution passed in the U.S. House of Representatives that would deduct $880 billion from the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the next decade to help enact tax cuts and raise the national debt limit. [...] Read full article.