Medicare and Medicaid agency faces compromised functions and disruption from Trump's firings

[JohnSJ]

"The federal agency that oversees Medicare, Medicaid, and other major health care programs is facing employee firings, flagging morale, confusing messaging, and the specter of additional disruption — compromising its oversight and administration of key programs that finance care for half of Americans.

Leaders at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services still haven’t formally received a list of who was fired in the initial round of cuts from the Trump administration, which focused on employees in their probationary periods. CMS leaders think at least 300 of the agency’s 6,700 employees have been let go, or a little under 5%, one senior CMS official told STAT."

https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/01/federal-employees-cms-layoffs-complicate-trump-promise-medicare-medicaid/

[vapor2]

1. Any law suits for this to protect our benefits??

[Silent Type]

2. Most of us interact with Medicare and Medicaid through government contractors, not government employees.

If you have a question about your Medicare, you likely call a government contractor, rather than a government employee. And that contractor is -- believe it or not -- a subsidiary of a private health insurance company that administers Medicare in your locality. It's been that way for at least 50 years.

Now, if cuts reach contractors, then we'll have a problem. Obviously if benefits are cut, that could be a problem unless providers can absorb the difference.