The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation released a poll on June 29, which finds very strong opposition to cuts to Medicaid, such as those in progress here in Tennessee. The "Democratic" Governor of Tennessee is in the process of cutting roughly 300,000 from the state's expanded Medicaid program, TennCare. The Governor's health care policy includes severely limiting the benefits of hundreds of thousands more.
According to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Fully 74% of Americans oppose state Medicaid Cuts.
Fully 65% oppose limits to prescription drugs under Medicaid.
The public is also strongly opposed to cuts at the federal level.
"About 80 percent of respondents supported increasing or maintaining the current level of federal Medicaid funding, while . .
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