While the administration has accused Republicans of waging a war on women for years, critics say Democrats now are waging their own by deeply cutting a home health care program.
The program hires and benefits mostly women, including Janet Connor and her mother, who got home health care when she contracted pneumonia.
"I couldn't have done it without help," Janet Connor said.
It was over in about a week, when her mother was well.
Dr. David Fisher of Cary, N.C., who makes house calls to seniors, said home health care workers are his first line of defense and help avoid more expensive treatment. "We demonstrated that medical care in the home reduces emergency room visits and hospitalizations," he said.
That is why so many oppose the administration's 14 percent cuts to home health care over the next four years.
One analysis found they would jeopardize 498,000 jobs, 90 percent held by women, in cuts made to pay for ObamaCare.
Now the jobs losses are starting to pile up-- 3700 in December, 3900 again in February, and hundreds more since.
In recent weeks, in New York, 775 workers were laid off from the largest non-profit home health care provider in the country.Read the rest of the story HERE and listen to Jim Angles on the subject below:
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