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If states tried to maintain ACA Medicaid expansion coverage amid a cap on federal spending, they could see $246 B in new costs over 10 years, with spending increases ranging from 4% in Massachusetts and South Dakota to 20% in Louisiana: https://t.co/fr9QOhTK3p https://t.co/4IXMCCWmwv
There are always trade-offs in policy changes. Reducing federal spending for Medicaid would result in fewer people with health insurance. CBO assumes states would replace about half of the federal cuts, which would also lead to cuts in other programs or higher state taxes. https://t.co/vtnQ8Jtt1C
CBO can’t predict individual state responses to Medicaid cuts but says there would be significant coverage losses. Perhaps optimistically, “CBO expects that, on average, states would replace roughly half of the reduced funds with their own resources.” https://t.co/8Dzy1vOuDj
NEW: If Congress cuts $880 billion from Medicaid, Missouri could face a yearly shortfall of $2 billion. An early 2000s budget gap of about $2.4 billion prompted the state to drop 100,000 people from Medicaid. @besables reports. ⤵️ https://t.co/yx9sC3xei8
Republicans, on the hunt for spending cuts, are eying a special kind of Medicaid tax that nearly every state uses to boost funding for hospitals, nursing homes, and other providers. https://t.co/hecW87Ipq6
🎙️Check out why Medicaid needs to STOP giving blank checks to illegal immigrants while the truly vulnerable get pushed to the back of the line... https://t.co/uGbWtZC63Q
CBO can’t predict individual state responses to Medicaid cuts but says there would be significant coverage losses. Perhaps optimistically, “CBO expects that, on average, states would replace roughly half of the reduced funds with their own resources.” https://t.co/8Dzy1vOuDj
Democrats used Obamacare to pressure states into taking more federal dollars to expand Medicaid, flooding the program with able-bodied adults and diverting resources from the truly needy. It is critical that we reform Medicaid and close loopholes that allow the able-bodied to
