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As Trump's advisers brainstorm cuts to Medicaid/SNAP, Republicans are reportedly worried about how it’ll look to gut social safety net programs in order to extend tax cuts that primarily benefited those making $400,000 or more a year (as they should be). talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-s…

Congressional GOP leaders are increasingly open about targeting #Medicaid for draconian cuts in 2025 as I have been warning about. But these cuts are not inevitable. House/Senate margins are tight, Medicaid is more popular than ever & 2017 shows that such cuts can be stopped.

Yesterday House Budget Committee Chair Arrington urged using budget reconciliation to cut mandatory health care spending. Now GOP Senator Cornyn expresses support for block granting #Medicaid next year. He says "Block grants make a lot of sense." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/1…

As election day unfolds, Medicaid is top of mind for me. The difference in how #Medicaid could be impacted under either major candidate are starkly different. publichealthwatch.org/2024/11/01/med…

@mcbridetd But you can repeal much of the Affordable Care Act, including seriously weakening pre-ex protections, and gut rest of Medicaid through budget reconciliation/50 votes in Senate if there is a Trump White House/GOP Congress just like was tried in the failed 2017 effort.

Election results could mean major changes in #Medicaid stateline.org/2024/11/01/ele…

Not leaving much confusion about what the plan is if Republicans obtain unified control of DC. Again: every GOP alternative to #ACA has had two pillars: allowing insurance co's to again segregate health from sick & big cuts in Medicaid. Cumulative result-millions more uninsured

Republicans are serious about cutting people’s health care vox.com/health-care/38…

"Massive reform" sounds very much like the 2017 failed GOP repeal/replace plan: eliminate the ACA coverage expansions, roll back the ACA's pre-existing condition protections & market reforms, and gut the rest of #Medicaid through block grants/per capita caps.

Remembering the health care fights in Trump’s first term… Despite campaign promises in 2015 not to cut Medicaid, Trump proposed in 2017 to slash Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) by hundreds of billions of dollars. Thread 🧵👇 (1)

Thread: this important NY Times interactive story highlights the stories of people who rely on #Medicaid but the outcome of the election will determine whether Medicaid will likely face dire cuts next year.

Finally top priority for a second Trump Administration & Congressional Republicans is making the 2017 tax cuts for high-income/corporations permanent. But complex Senate budget rules means that Medicaid is likely a target for massive cuts to pay for them: ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/09/04/gop…

As a result, many fewer people would have health coverage through #Medicaid or have access to the care they need, including the children with disabilities, low-income seniors and new mothers highlighted in the NY Times interactive article.

Medicaid Is Not a Top Campaign Issue. But for These Voters, It’s Crucial. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Must-read from @CitizenCohn on how #Medicaid "could get hammered" in a second Trump Administration