US EditionThink proposed Medicaid cuts will affect only poor, elderly? Think again
- Republicans, including President Trump, are seeking to reduce the Medicaid program, a joint federal-state initiative, nationally.
- Louisiana expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to cover more low-income adults due to its high poverty.
- Speaker Johnson advanced a budget resolution in February to cut at least $880 billion, including some from Medicaid.
- Johnson stated Medicaid should not cover 'able-bodied' adults without work requirements; Luccous said, "Most everybody you know is on Medicaid here."
- Health centers and hospitals fear Medicaid cuts could limit access to care and hinder repayment of loans, impacting services.
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The House speaker’s eyeing big cuts to Medicaid. In his Louisiana district, it’s a lifeline
By Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News, KFF Health News MANSFIELD, La. — When Desoto Regional Health System took out $36 million in loans last year to renovate a rural hospital that opened in 1952, officials were banking on its main funding source remaining stable: Medicaid, the joint federal-state health program for low-income people and the disabled. Related Articles Judge refuses to dismiss Central Park Five’s defamation case against…
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The Employment of Young Men
The message has apparently gone out among conservatives to start focusing on out-of-work young men in order to make cuts to Medicaid (Allysia Finley, Mike Johnson), with the idea being that if we make it so that these men cannot see the doctor when they get sick, this will cause them to become employed. On its face, this seems implausible. After all, man cannot live on doctor visits alone. But also, in most advanced nations, everyone can see the…
Young Men Are Not Lazily Opting Out of Work
The message has apparently gone out among conservatives to start focusing on out-of-work young men in order to make cuts to Medicaid (Allysia Finley, Mike Johnson), with the idea being that if we make it so that these men cannot see the doctor when they get sick, this will cause them to become employed. On its […]
'Cruelty': Johnson buried for using 'classist stereotype' to justify GOP’s Medicaid cuts
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is blaming what he calls “young men” playing video games instead of working, as he defends Republicans’ plan to gut Medicaid—slashing what Democrats say is $880 billion from the vital health program that provides medical care to one in five Americans.“No one has talked about cutting one benefit in Medicaid to anyone who’s duly owed — what we’ve talked about is returning work requirements, so, for example, you do…
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