Courtney Hester-Green is a U.S. military veteran whose daughter was born with Edwards syndrome and not expected to survive a year. Today, at age 5, she has a full life thanks in large part to Medicaid.

This is Courtney's impassioned plea to the United States Senate to block efforts to cut $716 billion from Medicaid — the largest cut in the program’s history — to pay for tax cuts for the super rich. This would be a death sentence for her child, she said, but not only hers.

"If we don't stand up for Medicaid now, hundreds of thousands of children like her will die with much more common conditions than hers," she said. "Much more common. Treatable. Preventable."

Between 9.7 million and 14.4 million people would lose their health coverage if the current bill were signed into law, according to the CBPP.

Courtney spoke at the foot of the U.S. Supreme Court building at a Moral Monday event featuring Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and the Repairers of the Breach coalition.

A few minutes later, Rev. Barber and eight others were arrested in the U.S. Capitol rotunda for praying against the Trump budget bill. The Repairers of the Breach movement is organizing civil disobedience actions at the U.S. Capitol on the first Monday of each month this summer.

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