The GOP's biggest falsehoods about Medicaid in Trump's spending bill, debunked
It’s undeniable: The House Republican reconciliation bill would take health coverage away from millions of people to partially pay for trillions in tax cuts, which are skewed to wealthy people and corporations. But the legislation’s backers would rather dismiss these uncomfortable facts and the people harmed by the bill they support.
“No one will lose coverage a result” of this bill, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought recently said. “People will not lose their Medicaid unless they choose to do so,” House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed.
These comments ignore the unprecedented harm the House legislation would inflict. Republicans’ proposed cuts — and their decision to let tax credits for the Affordable Care Act marketplaces expire — would cause an estimated 16 million people to become uninsured by 2034.
Many of the House bill’s cuts target people enrolled through the ACA’s Medicaid expansion for low-income adults, which most states adopted and without which many of these adults would lack any pathway to coverage. Johnson’s contention that only Americans who “choose” to will lose coverage refers to the bill’s so-called work requirements. But there’s little choice — for individuals or states — under those harsh provisions, which take coverage away from certain low-income adults when they can’t prove in a red-tape-laden process that they are working or should be exempt.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-gop-biggest-falsehoods-medicaid-222654210.html