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Don’t Fall for the Fear, GOP Seeks Sustainable Medicaid
Sally C. Pipes
The Biden administration is fear-mongering about what the “extreme MAGA Republican House Freedom Caucus” has in store for the country.
Last week, the White House put out a statement declaring the Freedom Caucus’s proposal to impose work requirements in Medicaid a “Five-Alarm Fire!”
But the real emergency is Medicaid’s finances.
Spending on the healthcare entitlement grew 9.2% in 2021, to $734 billion. The previous year, the bill jumped 9.3% to $672 billion.
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