As legislators wrote what is ready to become the historical legislative achievement of his second term, President Donald Trump told Republicans in Congress in May: «Do not fuck with Medicaid.»
On Wednesday, when he met with Holdouts in the «Great Beautiful Law» to try to overcome the finish line, Trump told Congress members if they want to win future elections, they should avoid playing Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. It is not wrong: 82 percent of voters say that Cutting Medicaid is unacceptable, including 71 percent of Trump voters. And 56 percent of voters say that protecting these vital programs should be the main priority of the Trump administration.
It seems that someone may want to tell the president that the bill he signed on Friday after a marathon of all nights in Congress last week, in fact, fucks with Medicaid, big.
Voters chose Trump in November in the hope of fulfilling their promise to «end inflation and make the United States again affordable.» That promise has not materialized; In fact, groceries, housing and electricity bills are becoming more expensive. And with the blow of his firm on Friday, Trump has also broken his promise on medical care.
Trump’s Budget Law will eliminate Medicaid coverage of up to 15 million people, mainly by imposing work requirements for all «solid» adults under 65, making them jump through unnecessary obstacles to access vital salvation care. Without Medicaid, these Americans would be forced to go without insulin, dialysis and cancer exams, or God prohibits, cancer treatments.
State legislators will be forced to find billions of dollars in their budgets already squeezed to cover the expenses of Medicaid that the federals have pushed to their balances. More than 300 rural hospitals and almost 600 elderly homes are at risk of closing. And for those who try to buy individual health coverage through state markets when Medicaid is expelled, their price will be double what it is now.
Republicans falsely claim that their bill does not cut Medicaid, but that is precisely the point of their policies. The nose of the republican majority leader of the House of Representatives, Steve Scalise, must have been growing when he said last week that these provisions will ensure that «the true disabled and those in need can obtain better access to Medicaid.» According to the Republican party, the «best access» apparently means walking medical care costs for the poorest Americans and implementing a bureaucracy maze.
Unfortunately for Republicans who try to quickly get the American people, we already know exactly what happens when Medicaid beneficiaries are forced to deal with the onerous requirements to access the benefits to which they are entitled. And that is because they have run this play before.
During Trump’s first mandate, he allowed the states of pilot work requirements for their Medicaid programs. New Hampshire, for example, tried to implement work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries in 2019 by demanding that they present evidence that they worked, offered volunteers or were at school for at least 100 hours per month. In the first month of the new policy, more than two thirds of Medicaid beneficiaries could not meet the requirements, not because they were not met but because the administrative burden was very high. The online form did not even have an option for people to report their job. A few weeks after the requirements went into force and almost 20,000 people at risk of losing coverage, the state arrested the implementation.
In Arkansas, the beneficiaries of Medicaid who were in or just above the level of poverty ($ 28,000 for a family of 3) had to inform at least 80 hours of work per month. During the first five months, the recipients could only do so through an online portal, in a state where a quarter of households lacked high -speed Internet. When the state added a phone option, the people they called waited for up to an hour. In just seven months, one in four Medicaid receptors subject to the requirement lost their health coverage.
Scalise affirms that the work requirements in the Republican party bill means that «the 35 -year -old woman who is sitting in her mother’s basement playing video games will have to go find a job again.» Evil again. In fact, evidence shows that work requirements do nothing to increase employment. This is because almost two thirds of adults of working age in Medicaid are employed, and most of the remaining third do not work because they are students, caregivers, sick or disabled.
For the 31 million adults of working age in Medicaid, the Project of Republican Budget Law will mean that they receive confusing letters in the mail that indicate that they spend innumerable hours fighting to navigate through the Graves Websites of the Government to update their address and send their time sheets. (Of course, that is for those who have stable email addresses and Internet access).
When the legislation stagnated temporarily in Congress last week in the midst of concerns about the devastating effects of these medical care cuts, Vice President JD Vance published in X that «the mini -policy of Medicaid … is irrelevant.»
This «intangible minutiae», estimates experts, could cause up to 200,000 preventable deaths when Americans cannot access the attention or treatments they need, hospitals and elderly households close, and insurance premiums become even more disabled.
There is nothing irrelevant about the impact that these cuts will have on the Americans, and the change of vice tune is particularly interesting in the light of the fact that he presented the case of Trump in 2017 on the basis that Trump was more than «a Republican fully focused on reducing taxes for the rich», and added that Trump had not campaigned «saying» that I am going to remove his social security and his social security. »
Vance had half of the reason. Trump does not focus completely on reducing taxes for the rich. He has also focused on gutting Medicaid and removing medical attention from millions of Americans.
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