If anything, they're not cutting Medicaid anywhere near as much as they should.
As the nearby chart shows, Medicaid outlays have positively skyrocketed these last 20 years: The feds spent $160 billion in fiscal year 2003; $591 billion in 2023 — over 3½ times as much.
State-level spending, meanwhile, rose from $108 billion to $280 billion — still a huge rise, but far less drastic.
What's basically gone on?
(It's Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for all" plan, except using the program originally intended to cover the poor, not the one designed for the elderly.)
In the process, Medicaid's grown from covering the poor to covering the near-poor and even the not-really-poor-at-all
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As the nearby chart shows, Medicaid outlays have positively skyrocketed these last 20 years: The feds spent $160 billion in fiscal year 2003; $591 billion in 2023 — over 3½ times as much.
State-level spending, meanwhile, rose from $108 billion to $280 billion — still a huge rise, but far less drastic.
What's basically gone on?
(It's Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for all" plan, except using the program originally intended to cover the poor, not the one designed for the elderly.)
In the process, Medicaid's grown from covering the poor to covering the near-poor and even the not-really-poor-at-all
Republicans aren’t coming CLOSE to cutting Medicaid as much as America actually needs
It’s a sign of how cock-eyed the Washington debate has gotten that Republicans are nervous about the slight slowdown in Medicaid-spending growth in the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
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