STATEMENT ON IOWA SENATE MEDICAID VOTE

DES MOINES –AFSCME Iowa Council 61 President Danny Homan issued the following statement regarding the Iowa Senate vote on Senate File 2125, which would halt the Branstad-Reynolds Medicaid outsourcing plan:

“Thank you to the 29 senators who stood up to vote for the bill to stop the disastrous Branstad-Reynolds Medicaid outsourcing plan. These 29 senators clearly heard and responded to the concerns of Medicaid patients, families, and providers. This vote should be a wake-up call to the Branstad-Reynolds Administration that they need to start listening to Iowans and abandon this plan that threatens the health care of over a half million Iowans.”