WISCONSIN EXAMINER: Medicaid turns from ‘a lifeline’ to a question mark for woman with chronic illness
For Emma Widmar, Medicaid has become a lifeline. Starting when she was 12 years old, symptoms began to show. She started receiving Social Security payments an,d Medicaid when she turned 18. She receives home-and-community-based services through a Medicaid. The bill passed despite widespread popular opposition. Widmar says she wants to encourage people “to continue voicing their opinions to policymakers, lawmakers and politicians,” not give up in resignation. “We are the ones that employ the government,” she says. “They work for us and we have to remind them of that.”
