President Donald Trump and Republican leaders continue to pretend that they are not reducing Medicaid with their new tax bill, which will further enrich the rich and will pay it in part by significantly cutting Medicaid, the Government Health Insurance Program for low -income and disabled Government.
Trump, who has repeatedly promised to protect Medicaid, and the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson (R-La.), Said that the Republicans simply point to «waste, fraud and abuse» on their tax bill, which approved the camera last week.
David Sacks, who serves as «AI and Crypto Czar de Trump», put the situation of Medicaid more clearly on Saturday in his Everything in Podcast: «This invoice cuts $ 880 billion of medicaid for a decade.»
Like Trump’s fiscal law in 2017, the republican party legislation is expected to disproportionately benefit the rich. This year’s invoice will even reduce the income after taxes of households that earn less than $ 51,000 per year.
It is also expected to force at least 10 million Americans in Medicaid, according to the non -partisan Congress Budget Office. This carnage will be achieved mainly imposing work requirements, a demand for Medicaid receptors with the body not to work at least 80 hours a month.
These requirements, which have previously failed at the state level, would come in addition to the existing income limits of the program. Together, this means that Medicaid recipients are expected to work on low jobs and deal with heavy paperwork demands if they wish to maintain their insurance coverage. It is likely that many eligible recipients lose coverage due to the additional bureaucracy.
However, Republican president and leaders have tried to argue that they are not really cutting Medicaid, and that their changes will not really harm their voters who deserve access to the program.
Trump said last week that his tax bill is simply aimed at «waste, fraud and abuse for Medicaid», and promised that their supporters of the working class «will not lose health insurance» as a result of the legislation. (Some of his followers will certainly lose health insurance).
«We have not cut Medicaid,» Johnson falsely insisted on a Face the nation Interview on Sunday. He added that Republicans are simply «working in fraud, waste and abuse.»
A memorandum last week of the National Committee of the Republican Congress, which chooses the legislators of the Republican party, declared that «Republicans are strengthening Medicaid.» He urged Republicans to offend and represent their changes as efforts to protect the program and «ensure that Medicaid serves those who need it.»
Sacks, a risk capital executive and special employee of the Trump government, jumped part of this claim in the Everything in Podcast, as the Republican Tax Invoice «cuts $ 880 billion of Medicaid» admitted. He pointed out that the cuts are «politically hard and controversial.»
In Podcast’s discussion, Sacks was defending against the argument that Trump’s fiscal legislation should do more to reduce spending. He said he wanted the cost of cutting the law more, but argued that Medicaid cuts are already «things relatively difficult to do politically», and that Republicans cannot reduce more and hope to approve the bill.
Even when Sacks recognized a basic truth that the Republicans have denied, Trump’s Tax Law draft Draft Medicaid tried to turn work requirements as something positive, as the Republican leaders are doing now.
«Impose work requirements for healthy adults,» he said. «This is similar to what Bill Clinton did in 1996 with a well -being reform, basically saying that you cannot be a layabout and obtain well -being.»
Of course, many people in Medicaid are technically considered with the body, even if they are functionally disabled and cannot work, because they have not been approved by disability, which is an onerous process. These people will lose coverage, and they will not be able to replace it: the tax bill, as written, says that people who lose the coverage of Medicaid due to the work requirements cannot register for an alternative coverage in the state markets.
Johnson, the Republican speaker, has affirmed that Republicans are simply trying to eliminate «29 -year -old men sitting on their sofas playing video games.» On Sunday, he said that «when you make young people work, it’s good for them.» He framed this as «moral.»
It is wrong to listen to Republicans to describe poor people whose insurance is ending as a lazy sofa, and hearing bags, which are worth at least hundreds of millions of dollars, describe them as «lycics» feel even worse.
At least he admitted what his boss, Donald Trump, no: Republicans are about to make large cuts to Medicaid. And they are doing it to help finance greater tax cuts for super rich.
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