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Dariya Walker is a high school student in Florissant, Missouri. Dariya and her family use Medicaid to access health care services, and she appreciates the peace of mind that having coverage gives her and her family.
Tina Roathe is a 54-year-old woman with five children living in Kansas City, Missouri. She depends on Medicaid to help cover the care she needs. Though not her first time using the program — she previously relied on it for secondary coverage during her pregnancies — she now depends on it to manage a recently developed disability.
After two heart transplants and ongoing health complications, Andrea Martin relies on Medicaid for life-sustaining medications, specialist care, and mental health support. Any cuts to her coverage would be devastating—not just for her survival, but for her two sons and the disabled community that depends on these essential services.
Anne Marie Schneider lives in Durham, North Carolina, and has spent more than three decades working across nearly every corner of the health care system. After losing her job with only days to act, Anne Marie and her husband turned to the ACA Marketplace. Given their circumstances, the family qualified for enhanced ACA tax credits, but without subsidies, the cost was impossible.
It took years for Heidi Pomerleau to get the health coverage they need to manage their permanent disability. Now covered by Medicaid and Medicare, Heidi lives in constant fear that they will lose access to care if the programs are cut. Now Heidi fights to help other people get insurance coverage through Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Renee Arnold has spent her life caring for people with disabilities, yet she cannot afford health insurance for her own husband. As premiums skyrocket, she faces impossible choices between housing, health care, and financial survival.
Amy Barley's work at the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange is personal. She lives with her own chronic health condition: type 1 diabetes. Amy's experience fighting to keep the coverage she needs, particularly access to her insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor (CGM) has motivated her to continue helping patients fight back against insurance denials and skyrocketing costs.
Joyce Clark Turner is currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah and training at the University of Utah to be an advocate for those with mental health challenges. She has worked multiple careers throughout her life and has experience navigating the health care system as both an employer and an employee. Along with this, she was on Medicaid while recovering from an alcohol use disorder.
When the cost of Lori Lay's ACA premiums exploded into half of her income, she faced the devastating risk of her family becoming uninsured. When her son suffered a serious car accident, she realized just how dangerous that possibility could be.
Christian Peoples lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her two children, both of whom have been diagnosed with autism. All three of them rely on Medicaid to access health care coverage, which has been an immense help through tough times.