Ms. Glenn, a Medicaid coordinator for Tri-County Special Education, an Illinois cooperative
that helps more than 20 school districts deliver special education services to students, was worried about an issue that few in Congress were discussing: how the new American Health Care Act, with its deep cuts to Medicaid, would affect her 2,500 students.
“School-based Medicaid programs serve as a lifeline to children who can’t access critical health care
and health services outside of their school,” said the letter sent this week by the Save Medicaid in Schools Coalition, which consists of more than 50 organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and the School Superintendents Association.
A Little-Noticed Target in the House Health Bill: Special Education -
By ERICA L. GREENMAY 3, 2017
WASHINGTON — While House Republicans lined up votes Wednesday for a Thursday showdown over their bill to repeal
the Affordable Care Act, Vickie Glenn sat in her Murphysboro, Ill., office and prayed for it to fail.
The advocates argued that under the House bill, the federal government would transfer the burden of health
care to states, which would result in higher taxes, eligibility cuts or curtailed services for children.
