How Medicaid helps Utah children

About two-thirds of the recipients of Utah’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program are children, and they can’t afford cuts to it now. A policy analyst for our Utah member explained the importance of these programs to youth in the state in a nicely written op-ed yesterday.

“Kids and adults from every community in our state are turning to Medicaid and CHIP because a tough economy has left no part of Utah untouched,” writes Lincoln Nehring, a senior health policy analyst for Voices for Utah Children. Utah and many other states may be forced to cut their Medicaid programs if some federal deficit hawks have their way. Learn more about federal budget cuts and how you can speak up for needy kids!