Refocusing Medicaid to prioritize the needy is worthy of bipartisan support, and the Big Beautiful Bill pushes us in that direction.
Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now law. Democrats have wasted no time accusing the GOP of enshrining devastating “cuts” to Medicaid, the joint federal-state entitlement that provides health coverage for low-income Americans.
That’s rubbish. The measure takes steps to restrain Medicaid’s rampant growth in recent years so that the program prioritizes our nation’s neediest, in line with its historical mandate.
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No, Donald Trump didn’t just slash Medicaid
Sally C. Pipes
Refocusing Medicaid to prioritize the needy is worthy of bipartisan support, and the Big Beautiful Bill pushes us in that direction.
Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now law. Democrats have wasted no time accusing the GOP of enshrining devastating “cuts” to Medicaid, the joint federal-state entitlement that provides health coverage for low-income Americans.
That’s rubbish. The measure takes steps to restrain Medicaid’s rampant growth in recent years so that the program prioritizes our nation’s neediest, in line with its historical mandate.
Read the 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.