Medicaid’s growth has come at the expense of the very patients it was created to serve.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution by the narrowest of margins. The most controversial component of the bill concerns Medicaid.
Democrats have castigated the resolution on the grounds that it would make steep cuts to the joint federal-state public healthcare entitlement. Even some Republicans have expressed unease about that possibility.
But the hand-wringing about Medicaid cuts is misplaced.
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We Can’t Afford Timidity in Revamping Medicaid
Sally C. Pipes
Medicaid’s growth has come at the expense of the very patients it was created to serve.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution by the narrowest of margins. The most controversial component of the bill concerns Medicaid.
Democrats have castigated the resolution on the grounds that it would make steep cuts to the joint federal-state public healthcare entitlement. Even some Republicans have expressed unease about that possibility.
But the hand-wringing about Medicaid cuts is misplaced.
Read the op-ed.
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.