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If Medicaid wasn't an option, I don't know. That would leave me in a rough spot.

House Republicans are proposing major cuts to Medicaid.

How could this impact American families?

It's May 21st, and this is here and now anytime.

From NPR and WBUR Boston.

I'm Kalyani Saxena.

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I think we love reading about other people's families because we only know what's going on in ours.

But I think there's also solace and knowing that you're not the only one who's going through something with your mom or your cousin or your uncle.

And this is one of the ways in which you can imagine overall cuts to the Medicaid program affecting

enrollees who congressional Republicans never meant to target.

We'll bring in an expert to explain how the House's proposed changes to Medicaid could play out.

But first, we want to actually hear from the regular people at the heart of

the battle over Medicaid. Families. For anyone who needs a reminder, Medicaid is a health

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