Death by a Thousand Cuts: The GOP's Stealth Move to End the ACA
So, congressional Republicans have decided that they MUST cut Medicaid spending by anywhere between $500 billion to $880 billion over the next decade. Why? Because if they don't, they won't be able to continue giving massive tax cuts to billionaires, and of course that's something which must happen for reasons unknown. To them, the alternative (namely, not kicking up to millions of Americans off their health care coverage) is simply crazy talk.
While congressional Republicans are quick to point out that technically the word "Medicaid" isn't included in the resolution itself, simple math makes it clear that there's absolutely no way to achieve that type of federal spending reduction without absolutely gutting Medicaid one way or another.
A few months back, House Republicans tossed around a half-dozen or so different ways they could achieve their goal, and in recent weeks it looks like they've pretty much boiled them down to three:
Eliminating the higher federal match rate for ACA expansion enrollees
Imposing per capita caps on ACA expansion enrollees
Imposing work reporting requirements on ACA expansion enrollees.
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