Must read on how Dr Oz's estimate of alleged Medicaid fraud in NY is likely vastly overstated due to a simple math error.
Scary that this is where the federal agency that runs a great deal of the US health care system is at.
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Joan Alker
The Chair of the House Budget Committee is literally saying they're going to pay for a war by cutting programs for people with low incomes.
This speaks to the folly of HR1 last year which made historic cuts of nearly $1 trillion to Medicaid the leanest part of our health care system while doing nothing to address the high costs of health care.
Joan Alker
Back in January the House Republican Study Committee (RSC) proposed additional #Medicaid cuts as part of a budget reconciliation 2.0 plan. ICYMI here's my blog on those proposals as they may be on the table for the bill to help offset the cost of ICE & Iran war $: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/01/22/h...
My colleague Andy Schneider on the new White House task force on eliminating fraud announced last week and how it's likely just cover for the Trump Admin in its continuing effort to target politically disfavored states by trying to block their federal #Medicaid $: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/03/27/t...
The proposal to cut federal #Medicaid $ for states using their own funds to cover immigrants would triple the costs of expansion forcing them to drop that coverage. This would include not just undocumented immigrants but also legal immigrants who lose eligibility under H.R. 1 this October.
Here again is a blog I wrote in January about the #Medicaid cuts in the House Republican Study Committee's plan for budget reconciliation 2.0, many of which will likely be considered by House Republican leaders all under the false frame of curbing fraud: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/01/22/h...
Brendan Duke
And a reminder H.R. 1 already cut federal #Medicaid and ACA Marketplace spending by $1.1T/10 years increasing the uninsured by 10 million. They were the largest Medicaid cuts and coverage rollback in history (not even counting the 4 million more uninsured with the
ACA enhanced subsidy expiration).
Both proposals were included in initial versions of H.R. 1 but later dropped. Ending silver loading by appropriating cost-sharing reductions effectively cuts ACA premium tax credits further (on top of the expiration of enhanced credits) & increases out-of-pocket premium costs/number of uninsured.
House Republican leaders still pushing to cut health care to offset cost of funding ICE and the Iran war. Among the proposals: cutting federal #Medicaid $ for states covering undocumented immigrants with their own $ and ending "silver loading" for ACA Marketplace plans. www.axios.com/2026/03/30/g...
