Detroit News: Letters to the Editor
Medicaid work requirements unfair
As a cancer survivor, I could not disagree more with the recent column, “Work requirements can save Medicaid,” Apr. 10.
I am a bone cancer survivor, undergoing an aggressive treatment of chemotherapy and surgery to survive this disease. Unless you’ve gone through this fight yourself or with a loved one, it may be hard to understand just how difficult fighting cancer can be on the patient and his or her family.
Fatigue, nausea, permanent swelling in your extremities, nerve damage, low blood counts, infections. These are just a few of the symptoms cancer survivors face.
When the nausea and other symptoms hit, going to work isn’t an option and sadly many cancer survivors must take time off or stop working to focus on getting well. That’s why this proposal to require low-income residents to work or complete hours of job training to keep their Medicaid is not only unfair, it’s potentially deadly.
Heather Hall
Sterling Heights
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