More reports have emerged about the fatal consequences Trumpcare and the Trump budget could have on maternal mortality and opioid recovery resources. Trump and the GOP want to cut lifesaving healthcare in order to line the pockets of millionaires and billionaires:

Dallas Morning News:  Health Care Expert: “Any changes in funding ‘would pose a real threat to prenatal care for Texas women and undermine efforts to address maternal mortality.’”

“Texas officials were already investigating why an alarming number of Lone Star women are dying from pregnancy-related complications when a study last year ranked the state’s maternal mortality rate as the nation’s worst.”

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“For starters, the AHCA could curb future Medicaid spending over a decade by more than $800 billion due to GOP-led concerns over growing Medicaid costs that many warn will saddle Americans with unsustainable debt. Texas would see a drop of as much as $1.5 billion annually in future anticipated funds, according to one study, leaving state officials with tough decisions over how to manage the shortfall. President Donald Trump’s budget proposal would tighten Medicaid spending by another $610 billion. What’s more, some health care providers are concerned that families who purchase insurance on the individual market could lose access to maternity care because of a last-minute amendment in the AHCA that would allow states to pursue a waiver from Obamacare’s 10 essential health care benefits. Those benefits include prenatal care, substance abuse and chronic disease management, among others.”

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“If insurers aren’t required to offer those benefits, people like Dr. Lisa Hollier, a Baylor College of Medicine obstetrician who leads the state’s Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force, warn the state could return to pre-ACA days when obtaining maternity coverage outside of employer-sponsored plans was nearly impossible, much less affordable.”

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“On average, 141,000 Texas women receive prenatal care through Medicaid each month, and Medicaid pays for more than 50 percent of births in Texas…Any changes in funding ‘would pose a real threat to prenatal care for Texas women and undermine efforts to address maternal mortality,’ [Adriana Kohler, senior health policy associate at Texans Care for Children] said.”

NPR/WITF: Charlene Yurgaitis is recovering from opioid addiction. Her GOP congressman and Senator Toomey want to cut the assistance that helps her receive treatment to stay clean.

Trumpcare “cuts endanger addiction treatment, which many people receive through the government health insurance program.”

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“Yurgaitis gets a monthly shot of Vivitrol, also known as naltrexone. ‘That stops me,’ she says. The medication blocks receptors in her brain so she can't get high off opioids, but it also costs about $1,000 a dose. The monthly shots are paired with weekly therapy sessions, and visits with a recovery coach. Medicaid in Pennsylvania pays for all the treatment.”

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“‘I would never be able to afford counseling,’ she says. ‘I would never be able to afford psych meds. I would never be able to afford the Vivitrol shot.’ Yurgaitis is just one of more than 124,000 Pennsylvanians who depended on Medicaid to get help for their drug or alcohol addiction last year. The Republican health care bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives in May and is now under consideration in the Senate would reduce spending on Medicaid by more than $800 billion across 10 years.”

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“Yurgaitis' congressman, Rep. Lloyd Smucker, a Republican, voted for the GOP bill in the House; in the Senate, Pennsylvania Republican Pat Toomey has said he agrees that Medicaid should be cut.”