So $50B over 5 years. If evenly divided among 50 states….ok. That’d be $200 million a year for those 5 years. Do you think that will get states and their poorest communities over the hump? By any stretch of the imagination?
Especially since the “cuts” don’t go into effect until 2027.
The title notes "Expected" cuts. Maybe they were already on a very tight budget and knew that any cuts would devastate them.
So scare quotes are quotation marks that writers place around a word or phrase to signal that they are using it in an ironic, referential, or otherwise non-standard sense.
You still haven't figured out that putting a 20 in someone's pocket while removing a Benjamin is a bad trade, huh?
Do you make recommendations to your clients only based on today's instant realities or do you look at future likelihood as well? Just curious.
Only for able bodied childless adults who are unwilling to work 20 hours a week. Currently 14 million. Get off the couch and you’ll be covered.
If those 14 million “get off the couch” there will be no savings. How many of the 14 million have small children at home, or are disabled?
Why shouldn’t an ABLE BODIED CHILDLESS adult work 20 hours a week in order to be covered by Medicaid? It’s good for society and good for the individual - watching reality tv and smoking pot all day is no way to go through life.
Was that group previously running up large bills at doctors’ offices and hospitals? The young, childless, able-bodied, pot-smoking males that I’ve known weren’t high frequency consumers at medical clinics.
Wow, everything is so simple in your world.
Guess the incels are now wishing they hadn't voted for trump bru like they were told.
This entire post revolves around a blatant lie. The vast majority of these relate to Medicaid expansion under the ACA. You say they should work 20 hours a week and I agree...BUT...the minute they are doing that (especially if they are male), they are going to lose Medicaid eligibility through means testing. They will.make too much money to qualify for Medicaid and not enough to qualify for ACA subsidy.
Is that actually what's going to happen years from now? Do they know that?
People make financial decisions everyday based on what they expect to happen in coming years.
That's their choice. They could have continued running, BAU, as they had been for years....since nothing was changing FOR years. They don't know how their customer base is going to be impacted. They may have been better off with the federal funding.
Yes, that's actually what's going to happen and we do know that.
18 months
Because "Medicaid" isn't designed for that. It was expanded under Obamacare as part of the universal health plan. Now y'all are undercutting it.
However long... This reeks of an emotional response, akin to people claiming they're going to move out of the country the day after a specific president wins.