Press Release: 5/23/2025

Statement of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East on the Budget Bill Passed by the U.S, House of Representatives Early This Morning

May 22, 2025

 

 

“The House budget represents a massive and appalling giveaway to billionaires at the expense of children, seniors, people with disabilities, working families and their healthcare. New York Republicans shamefully reneged on their promises to their constituents to protect Medicaid, instead voting for the largest cut in history—an unprecedented $625 billion.

“The harm of this budget to the health of New Yorkers would be immediate and severe. Nearly 1.5 million New Yorkers would lose health coverage and $13.5 billion would be gutted from our state’s healthcare system and economy.

“Healthcare institutions and providers reliant on Medicaid would face insurmountable financial challenges, leading to reductions in services, loss of healthcare jobs, and longer wait times. Hospitals, nursing homes, homecare, outpatient and community-based services will all be impacted. Families will face new bureaucratic hurdles just to maintain the benefits they are entitled to, leading to a less efficient and harder-to-navigate Medicaid system.

“The healthcare workers of 1199SEIU call on the Senate to reverse these egregious cuts, which Americans overwhelmingly oppose, to avoid devastating consequences to the health and wellbeing of millions of people.”