SJR15 called on Alaska's congressional delegation to oppose cuts to federal Medicaid spending, warning that reductions would threaten healthcare access across the state, especially for low-income residents, seniors, people with disabilities, and rural communities that rely heavily on Medicaid-supported providers and services.
The Alaska State Senate passed SJR15 on May 19, 2025 by a vote of 14 to 6. We have assigned pluses to the nays because neither healthcare nor social welfare is the legitimate object of government. Medicaid, as with many other "entitlement programs," discriminatorily and unjustly provides "eligible" low-income persons, who have little or no tax liability, with government funds at the expense of other hard-working citizens. Alaska must reject the use of taxpayer dollars for this ever-expanding and unsustainable federal-state program that is not authorized under Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.
