As state, federal Medicaid cuts loom, Hoosiers anxious about impact

Jordan Musenbrock, 35, said Medicaid helped pay for her manual wheelchair and its repairs, shower chair, catheters and multiple medications.

Musenbrock, who has been wheelchair-bound since she was 17 years old following a car accident, said without Medicaid she will have to choose between a drastic decline in health, even death, or financial hardship.

“Either I won’t have what I need to live or I’m going to be in debt to survive,” Musenbrock, of Michigan City, said. “I already have the added difficulty of having a disability, and so now it’s just added difficulty, added stress of will I have what I need to live.”