Trump must choose: Medicaid grift or fiscal sanity | Blaze Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Nearly all its revenue comes from government contracts, mostly Medicaid managed care.
59% : If Social Security, Medicare, the military, and the VA remain off-limits -- as both parties insist -- then Medicaid is the only major program left where Congress can find real savings.
57% : In most states, Medicaid ranks as either the top or second-highest budget item.
56% : In practice, Medicaid drives inflation across the economy and accelerates health care cost growth.
55% : We should also expect modest contributions from most enrollees -- just as Medicare does.
53% : These lukewarm Republicans object to the House's reconciliation framework, which directs Guthrie's committee to identify roughly $80 billion in annual savings -- most of which would come from Medicaid.
53% : It's time to overhaul our entire approach to Medicaid.
52% : In fiscal year 2025, the federal government alone is projected to spend $656 billion on Medicaid.
51% : He owes it to the public to apply just as much pressure on the GOP moderates shielding Medicaid from even modest reforms.
47% : If Congress held Medicaid growth to the same rate as Medicare, the "savings" would exceed what the Freedom Caucus is currently demanding.
46% : Earlier this month, Trump rightly noted that in 1870, tariffs funded nearly the entire federal government.
42% : At the very least, Trump should insist on strict work requirements for able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid.
41% : According to the Foundation for Government Accountability, more than 60% of able-bodied adult enrollees report no earned income.
39% : No program has done more to drive up health care costs and balloon inflationary debt than Medicaid.
38% : Trump already agreed in principle to these reductions in discussions with the House Freedom Caucus.
37% : A dozen House Republicans sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), warning they would oppose any reconciliation bill that trims Medicaid.
37% : Anyone who claims to care about federal spending while blocking Medicaid reform is lying.
36% : Congress should repeal Obamacare and allow for real choice and competition in the insurance market.
34% : And let's be clear: No one is proposing actual cuts to Medicaid.
26% : Trump has pushed the Freedom Caucus hard to support the reconciliation bill.
23% : If Trump wants to revive 19th-century fiscal discipline, he must let go of this bizarre loyalty to a Medicaid system that mostly enriches managed care executives -- and leaves taxpayers and patients holding the bag.

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