Are you on or unfairly excluded from Medicaid? Do you rely on Medicaid-funded services to live independently? Have you been forced to delay care or cut spending on basic needs due to healthcare costs?
Join the 2025 Medicaid Cutoffs Organizing Drive and the Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign:
- Sign up for our newsletter and action alerts on the homepage or footer below (“Get the Latest!”)
- Share your story for #MedicaidMonday. Check out our Facebook and Instagram feeds, read the #MedicaidMonday guide, and DM us to participate.
- Print and post a “Protect Medicaid” outreach flier at your local school, library, or health center; or distribute at a rally.
From 2023 to 2024, 25 million people were unnecessarily kicked off of Medicaid under President Biden, including over 30,000 Vermont residents. We saw how losing Medicaid led to increased sickness and even death for those of us who had to go without healthcare. Now, millions more of us are at risk following the passage of the “Big, Beautiful Bill for Billionaires” in the summer of 2025, which:
- Takes billions from healthcare and food to give to tax cuts for the wealthy
- Fuels ecological devastation by doubling down on dirty energy and fossil fuels
- Massively expands funding for ICE, deportations, and militarism
“This bill is an attack on our elders, on our children, on our families, and all of us … But this cruelty is nothing new. What is new is that we won’t fall for their lies anymore. The time is now to come together for support, survival, and strategy. Healthcare is a human right!” — Excerpt from the Nonviolent Medicaid Army Statement on the “Big Beautiful Bill” — for Billionaires!
In the coming months and years, Vermont lawmakers, regulators, and hospital officials will make important decisions impacting our access to healthcare — from Medicaid eligibility and benefits, to the cost of health insurance, to access to local patient services.
Poor and working-class people must claim a leading role in this process to ensure our leaders are guided by human rights principles and Vermont’s existing mandate for universal healthcare. In the words of the National Union of the Homeless: “You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take!”
Forward Together, Not One Step Back!