Republicans aren’t coming CLOSE to cutting Medicaid as much as America actually needs

Republicans aren’t coming CLOSE to cutting Medicaid as much as America actually needs

It’s a sign of how cock-eyed the Washington debate has gotten that Republicans are nervous about the slight slowdown in Medicaid-spending growth in the “Big Beautiful Bill.”

POLITICS: Republicans aren’t coming CLOSE to cutting Medicaid as much as America actually needs – U-S-NEWS.COM

It’s a sign of how cock-eyed the Washington debate has gotten that Republicans are nervous about the slight slowdown in Medicaid-spending growth in the “Big Beautiful Bill.” If anything, they’re not cutting Medicaid anywhere near as much as they should. As the nearby chart shows, Medicaid outlays have positively skyrocketed these last 20 years: The feds spent $160 billion in fiscal year 2003; $591 billion in 2023 — over 3½ times as much. State-l…