Medicaid & SNAP Cuts Threaten Missouri & Kansas Seniors Most Of All

Fun fact . . . 

Former Veep Kamala actually garnered more old school voters than Prez Trump.

And so  . . . This might be a bit of payback . . . Check-it:  

In Missouri, almost 10% of the state’s 1.1 million residents 65 years old or older live below the poverty level and 22% receive food assistance. In Kansas, 8.5% of the state’s 510,000 seniors live below the poverty level.

“We do not have the infrastructure to meet the needs of the region’s aging population at this moment,” said Jeron Ravin, president and CEO of Swope Health, a safety-net health clinic in Kansas City that has made improving that infrastructure one of its priorities.

And that’s the situation before provisions in new federal legislation, President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” go into effect.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Missouri and Kansas seniors worry they'll be 'hurt the worst' by Medicaid and SNAP cuts

The states have been studying how to support their aging populations, but now critical federal funds won't be available to help.

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