Republicans have a golden opportunity to nudge Medicaid back toward fiscal sustainability. Let’s hope they don’t waste it.
House Republicans held the mark-up last week for their reconciliation package, which includes several significant reforms to Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement that provides health benefits to roughly one in five Americans.
The package is not perfect. But it would restore some measure of fiscal sanity to the program by, among other things, reining in the schemes that have allowed states to fleece federal taxpayers for decades.
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Republicans are right to reform Medicaid
Sally C. Pipes
Republicans have a golden opportunity to nudge Medicaid back toward fiscal sustainability. Let’s hope they don’t waste it.
House Republicans held the mark-up last week for their reconciliation package, which includes several significant reforms to Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement that provides health benefits to roughly one in five Americans.
The package is not perfect. But it would restore some measure of fiscal sanity to the program by, among other things, reining in the schemes that have allowed states to fleece federal taxpayers for decades.
Read the op-ed in Washington Examiner.
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.