OH-Sen: Brown (D) Highlights How Trumpcare Guts Medicaid Reimbursements & Hurts Public Schools

"Ohio schools could lose millions under Obamacare repeal-replace bill"
-- Cleveland.com, 5/5/2017

Here's one casualty of the GOP's ACA repeal you don't hear about much: Schools.

Ohio school districts get reimbursed by Medicaid for providing things like speech therapy, disability services, behavioral services, student evaluations, and other special education services.

According to a report in Cleveland.com:

"Large districts like Cleveland Metropolitan School District would lose more than $500,000 a year, enough to pay the salaries of a number of special education teachers, therapists or nurses.

...States would have to decide whether to dedicate more or less money to other health programs -- such as health coverage for low-income Ohioans -- or make the schools absorb the loss."

Eliminating these Medicaid reimbursements would force schools to choose between laying off special education therapists who students need or increasing class sizes and reducing advanced placement and elective programs.

The Republican ACA repeal will do more than kick 23 million Americans off their healthcare -- it will take millions from schools in Ohio and across the country. Stand against it.

Thank you.

Sherrod

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