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BumRushDaShow

(157,278 posts)
Tue Feb 18, 2025, 05:15 PM Feb 2025

Republicans consider cuts and work requirements for Medicaid, jeopardizing care for millions

Source: AP

Updated 1:11 PM EST, February 18, 2025


WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program. Millions more Americans signed up for taxpayer-funded health care coverage like Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace during the Biden administration, a shift lauded by Democrats as a success.

But Republicans, who are looking to slash federal spending and offer lucrative tax cuts to corporations and wealthier Americans, now see a big target ripe for trimming. The $880 billion Medicaid program is financed mostly by federal taxpayers, who pick up as much as 80% of the tab in some states. And states, too, have said they’re having trouble financing years of growth and sicker patients who enrolled in Medicaid.

To whittle down the budget, the GOP-controlled Congress is eyeing work requirements for Medicaid. It’s also considering paying a shrunken, fixed rate to states. All told, over the next decade, Republican lawmakers could try to siphon billions of dollars from the nearly-free health care coverage offered to the poorest Americans.

Weeks before Congress began debating those changes, Republican governors in Arkansas, Ohio and South Dakota were making moves to implement Medicaid work rules of their own, likely to be approved by President Donald Trump’s administration.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-cuts-work-requirements-congress-republicans-90ec1119f1d95de067c76f79eec7fa87

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Republicans consider cuts and work requirements for Medicaid, jeopardizing care for millions (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Feb 2025 OP
When Rudy was mayor of NYC, he had a similar concept. no_hypocrisy Feb 2025 #1
How about work requirements for Congress otchmoson Feb 2025 #2
Mighty Xtian of them Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2025 #3

no_hypocrisy

(52,387 posts)
1. When Rudy was mayor of NYC, he had a similar concept.
Tue Feb 18, 2025, 05:22 PM
Feb 2025

1. Make anyone getting government subsidies to work to continue to get the money.
2. Fire union workers, e.g., those folks who emptied city garbage receptacles, raked leaves, etc.
3. Make the welfare recipients do those jobs for less than minimum wage.

It never went through.

otchmoson

(126 posts)
2. How about work requirements for Congress
Tue Feb 18, 2025, 05:26 PM
Feb 2025

Taxpayers pay their salaries, their staffs' salaries, and for lots of perks (barbershop, cafeteria, franking, etc. etc.) Their idea that "investigating" at the behest of their orange god and his co-president, comprises WORK is certainly debatable. I haven't been able to contact one of my senators for the past 4 days because "his mailbox is full." That doesn't sound like he's working very diligently, does it. Thanks corrupt Sen. Rick Scott. They appear to have ceded their legislative authority to the executive branch, and now merely participate in theatrics & sound bites.

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