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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,900 posts)
Tue May 13, 2025, 02:30 PM May 2025

House GOP sneakily proposes kicking millions of people off Medicaid

While no one was watching Sunday night, House Republicans released their official plan to only partly pay for President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," which will cut taxes for the rich and finance his evil deportations. As expected, the legislation will cut health care for millions of Americans.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee's legislation would cut $912 billion over the next decade, with $715 billion coming from Medicaid, the popular program that provides health insurance to more than 71 million Americans annually.

“Congressional Republicans and President Trump rightly pledged to protect Medicaid benefits and coverage—this bill fails that test. It is imperative Republicans go back to the drawing board; too many lives depend on it,” Chip Kahn, president and CEO of the Federation for American Hospitals, said in a statement.

The plan would make cuts to Medicaid by capping provider taxes, which states use to extract matching federal funds to cover Medicaid costs.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/12/2321890/-House-GOP-sneakily-proposes-kicking-13-7-million-people-off-Medicaid

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House GOP sneakily proposes kicking millions of people off Medicaid (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2025 OP
If the R's are being sneaky senseandsensibility May 2025 #1
I've actually seen some discussion of the provider taxes in the media. It is actually a kind of "sneaky" LauraInLA May 2025 #2

senseandsensibility

(24,254 posts)
1. If the R's are being sneaky
Tue May 13, 2025, 02:34 PM
May 2025

about something so essential to so many Americans, then it is the duty of the media to spell out clearly what is happening......oh, never mind....we are so screwed.

LauraInLA

(2,248 posts)
2. I've actually seen some discussion of the provider taxes in the media. It is actually a kind of "sneaky"
Tue May 13, 2025, 04:21 PM
May 2025

way states have used to get more fed funds for Medicaid. We’ll see if they actually manage to stop the practice .

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