[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 20, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H2186]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 GOP TAX SCAM HURTS WOMEN AND FAMILIES

  (Mrs. McIVER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. McIVER. Mr. Speaker, ``I probably wouldn't be alive because I 
wouldn't have been able to afford [my] medicine.'' That is what 
Dominique from East Orange, New Jersey, said about Medicaid.
  Dominique is one of the 100,000 Americans who lives with the sickle 
cell disease, and she is one of the millions of Americans who would be 
devastated by Republicans gutting Medicaid.
  We need to understand that the suffering they are going to create has 
a face, and it is Dominique's.
  When she was just 6 years old, Dominique was diagnosed with sickle 
cell disease. That is also when her aunt enrolled her in Medicaid.
  Medicaid didn't mean that life was easy--Dominique spent much of her 
time in hospitals and visiting doctors--but it made life possible.
  With Medicaid, she is able to see a hematologist regularly, receive 
the appropriate equipment and medications to make living at home 
possible, seek mental health care due to the toll of living with this 
disease, and receive treatment for any potential emergencies.
  Dominique gets to live knowing the care she deserves is within her 
reach, in her own words, thanks to Medicaid.

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