Obama Won't Consider Medicaid Cuts
Posted at 3 p.m. on Feb. 1
The Hill reports that the Obama administration “is no longer willing to make even the Medicaid cuts it had previously supported, but acknowledged that puts more pressure on Medicare.”
“The push to prioritize Medicaid over Medicare is a result of the Supreme Court’s decision last year upholding the Affordable Care Act as constitutional. The decision gave states the ability to opt out of the law’s Medicaid expansion.”
“The federal government will initially cover the entire cost of the expansion, but some Republican governors don’t entirely trust Congress to follow through on those funding commitments. The White House is taking its Medicaid cuts — some of which would have shifted costs to the states — off the table to send a message to governors.”
