Last week, I wrote a letter to Cindy Mann, who leads state services for Medicare and Medicaid, calling for a comment period and a public hearing before Gov. Jan Brewer cuts almost 300,000 people from our state Medicaid program. Brewer has been talking about doing this for months, and unfortunately the Department of Health and Human Services isn't stopping her. I consider this nothing less than a war on Arizona's working families. Before we throw low income neighbors out of their hospital beds, I thought we should at least have a chance to hear why this is happening. Read my letter and decide for yourself.
Ms. Mann has said she's considering my suggestion, and the people of Arizona hope to hear some good news in the near future. In the meantime, I've continued to speak up against these cuts -- which are being made to cover state Republicans' passage of a $538 billion tax cut package that favors their corporate friends -- and work on other issues of importance to Arizona. I was content to wait for Ms. Mann's decision.
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