Medicaid cuts were so wrong

To the editor:

In 2003 I filled out an application for MC+ for our children because we could not afford health insurance. I was surprised when I received cards not just for our children, but for my husband and myself for Missouri Medicaid. I figured that he and I would just go without insurance, because we were healthy. This was the year I found out I had breast cancer. I thank God we had Medicaid. I don't know what we would have done without it. Would I have lost my life? Would my husband and children have lost our home? These questions are real now for thousands of Missouri families that have been cut from Medicaid. Something must be done. This is all so wrong. In the Bible, Jesus tells us to take care of each other and to take care of the poor people and the sick people. He never said to only take care of the people with lots of money. As a matter of fact, I remember something about a camel and the eye of a needle.

PAULA BRANSCUM JONES, Oak Ridge