Home care worker Gilda Brown discusses why Medicaid matters

The House of Representatives is set to vote on Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) plan to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for devastating cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. SEIU HCII home care worker Gilda Brown shared her experience of how these cuts would impact some of the most vulnerable people in the country. Read the full story and contact your representatives to tell them how cutting home care and Medicaid funding would hurt all of us for generations to come.

"Members of Congress should remember: you too will grow old and your loved ones will grow old. The decisions you are making right now will affect us all. They will affect our children and grandchildren. Cutting home care and cutting Medicaid funding would harm us all." --Home care worker Gilda Brown