When the Center for American Progress sees cuts in the Republican tax plan, the left-leaning organization sees Littleton’s Kelly Stahlman, a “Medicaid mom” raising twin sons with cerebral palsy.

The center is touting new research that shows the cost of healthcare cuts at the local level, to families such as the Stahlmans. She first told her story to NBC News in June.

Her sons Mark and Eric rely on wheelchairs and feeding tubes. They need hospital-level care every day.

“Eric used oxygen and later a ventilator. Mark used a speech computer to talk. Their medical expenses could have easily caused us to live under a bridge,” Stahlman said in a statement for Colorado Politics. “We were afraid of medical bankruptcy at any point in time. Living under a bridge was a real possibility!”

She said that before 2010, the year the Affordable Care Act passed, 60 percent U.S. bankruptcies were caused by medical debt.

Stahlman said she worries about the cuts to Medicaid that could fund Republican tax cuts.

“This budget does not reflect our values,” she said. “As Americans, who are we if we don’t care for our own people. This just isn’t right. It’s wrong.”

The Center for American Progress reports:

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to vote next week on a tax plan that would provide massive tax cuts to corporations and the wealthiest Americans. By 2027, approximately 47 percent of the plan’s total tax cuts would go to the richest 1 percent of Americans. But while the average person in the richest 0.1 percent would pay nearly $280,000 less in taxes in 2027, many middle-class families would pay more than they currently do that same year. Some families would experience tax hikes even sooner, as the plan would eliminate a tax provision that allows families to deduct high medical expenses from their incomes.

The Hill reported Wednesday the House could vote on its tax bill as early as Thursday, while Senate Republicans are stilld drafting their plan, which is expected to be a new approach to repealing and replacing Obamacare and rolling back Medicaid, Medicare and other benefits.

The news site reported:

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is the only GOP senator publicly voicing concerns about the individual mandate provision, saying it was a “mistake” to mix the issues of tax reform and health care.