Trump budget: $800 billion in Medicaid cuts

[spanone]

(CNN)Donald Trump's budget that is expected to be unveiled on Tuesday will include $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid -- a move that underscores the President's resolve to significantly downsize the federal program even as Republican lawmakers are clashing over the issue in Congress.

The $800 billion reduction, confirmed to CNN Sunday evening by a senior administration official, assumes that the GOP health care bill that the House passed earlier this month would become law, that official said.

The House legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act -- President Barack Obama's landmark health care law also known as Obamacare -- would significantly curtail federal support for Medicaid.

Under that bill, in 2020, states that expanded the program would no longer receive enhanced funding to cover low-income adults, while states that did not expand previously would not be able to do so, starting immediately. Some 11 million adults have gained coverage under Medicaid expansion.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/medicaid-budget-cuts/index.html

[writes3000]

1. That's going to be SUPER popular! The best healthcare ever! Isn't that what Trump promised?

[spanone]

2. heartless. people are going to die.

[writes3000]

3. Only "those" people who are "milking" the system.

Isn't that how the Republicans argue for this? And their supporters eat it up until they're impacted.

Sad and terrifying.

[Drahthaardogs]

4. Most of those people voted for him.

They literally dug their own graves.

[oasis]

5. Hell to pay in election 2018.

[procon]

6. Yeah, but what about the real people?

Republicans have a twisted world view about Americans enrolled in Medicaid, convinced that they are always lazy freeloaders and deadbeats. They don't see that their fellow Americans who are disabled, elderly, vets, babies, children, pregnant women, people with severe medical and mental health problems, people who live in skilled nursing facilities or other state institutions, students, people who are too poor to afford the cost of their medications, co-pays, deductibles or private insurance premiums, and the working poor who earn just enough to make them unqualified for regular public health programs.

Where do all those people go if they are cut off cold, and how much is that going to cost?

[spanone]

8. it's going to cost their lives.

[Miles Archer]

7. It's all part of his campaign promise to provide beautiful health care for all