Interesting read: Robert B. Reich: How the DOGE billionaires plan to kill Medicaid

The author suggests a three-prong approach will save the US hundreds of billions. Medicaid is an easier target than Social Security or Medicare as it aids primarily poor children and people with little political voice. Last year the federal government and states combined contributed to pay out $880 Billion in Medicaid benefits.

Lopping the head off that beast must have Musk and that smarmy guy literally salivating.

Here's how they'll do it.
1. Turn Medicaid into block grants. Some Pubs are already on record supporting this. As the number of recipients increase, states will have to allocate additional money or cut recipients. Guess what direction the red states will be going?

2. Impose a work requirement which will cause 500,000 recipients, mostly medically unable to work, to lose their benefits saving $100 billion over the next decade. Some states have implemented this, got ill recipients kicked off the rolls and save significant money. No word on how those ill people who couldn't work are getting along. The exercise should be good for them, right?

3. Cut back the expansion of Medicaid that came with the Affordable Care Act. Hundreds of thousands of families earning under $43,000/year will lose their subsidized health insurance.

I guess the good news is that as long as you're not a poor child or not so ill than you can't work or your family earns more than $43,000/year, these changes shouldn't affect you. On the other hand, if you are a Medicaid recipient and you voted for these people, this is what you asked for. Enjoy.


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