DES MOINES, Iowa —

An Iowa woman invited to Capitol Hill last week to testify at a hearing about the impact changes to Medicaid on the federal level could have spoke with KCCI about her concerns.

Jonna Higgins-Freese says her two sons, Reuben, 19, and Henry, 17, have been sick since birth and rely heavily on Medicaid.

The majority of Medicaid changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act come from eligibility changes and should not impact her son. However, some provisions could impact funding sources for Medicaid at the state level, which is where, for some people, there's a sense of uncertainty.

"We don't know yet what the impact of the Medicaid cuts will be on our family specifically," said Higgins-Freese. "They are just a lot of unknowns."

Higgins-Freese told KCCI she worries about how

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