GOP pollster: Majority of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts

Gutting Medicaid to Cut Taxes Is the GOP’s Problem From Hell

The budget math for financing tax cuts makes going after the very popular Medicaid program, or lying about the math itself, almost mandatory for Trump & Co. It’s the same problem that tanked Trumpcare in 2017.

Medicaid cuts, tariffs will hurt hospitals and their patients

As a retired nurse, I read with alarm Julie Washington’s April 6 account of the possible “cataclysmic” effects that could result from cuts in Medicaid funding by both the state of Ohio and the federal government (“A ‘cataclysmic ripple effect in our state’”). Ohio hospitals in rural areas and those, such as MetroHealth, serving urban patients, face challenges as uninsured patients attempt to access health care. Medicaid cuts will also negatively…

GOP pollster: Majority of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts

A majority of Americans who voted for President Trump oppose cuts to Medicaid funding, according to a recent poll. Two-thirds of surveyed swing voters oppose cutting Medicaid spending to pay for tax cuts, as do 51 percent of surveyed Trump voters, according to the poll conducted by the firm Fabrizio Ward. The poll is significant…

Trump Pollster Finds Medicaid Cuts Unpopular

Politico: “Two-thirds of swing voters… said they disapproved of slashing the safety-net health program as part of the GOP’s larger effort to pass a party-line package of tax cuts, beefed up border security and increased defense spending. …” “These findings from Fabrizio Ward, the firm that conducted the survey, come as some Republicans say they oppose cuts to Medicaid to finance that package — but could have few other options than to do just tha…

'Political problem': Trump pollster has bad news for lofty GOP policy goal

Bob Ward, partner with Fabrizio Ward, the firm of veteran GOP pollster Tony Fabrizio, said that the idea that the Republican Party is going to take away people's health insurance will be a "political problem" for the party. “I think you’d find support for getting rid of waste and fraud,” Ward said. “But the whole idea that we’re going to take away people’s health insurance and that’s not going to be a political problem for us, I don’t know where…

Trump pollster finds Medicaid cuts unpopular among Trump voters

“There's really not a political appetite out there to go after Medicaid to pay for tax cuts," said Bob Ward, partner with Fabrizio Ward.