The Medicaid status quo is unsustainable. Republicans should seize their chance next year to prevent the program from further drowning the federal budget in red ink.
Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid, the entitlement that provides health coverage to roughly 1 in 5 people. Requiring beneficiaries to work, volunteer, or attend school as a condition of receiving coverage and block-granting federal Medicaid funds to the states are under consideration.
But with complete control of Congress and the White House, Republicans should think bigger and repeal Obamacare’s fiscally irresponsible expansion of Medicaid to able-bodied people.
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Trump can fix Medicaid
Sally C. Pipes
The Medicaid status quo is unsustainable. Republicans should seize their chance next year to prevent the program from further drowning the federal budget in red ink.
Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid, the entitlement that provides health coverage to roughly 1 in 5 people. Requiring beneficiaries to work, volunteer, or attend school as a condition of receiving coverage and block-granting federal Medicaid funds to the states are under consideration.
But with complete control of Congress and the White House, Republicans should think bigger and repeal Obamacare’s fiscally irresponsible expansion of Medicaid to able-bodied people.
Read the entire Washington Examiner op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.