Summary
House Republicans cannot meet their budget target without major cuts to Medicare or Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Their budget plan requires $880 billion in cuts, but with Medicare excluded, Medicaid makes up 93% of the available funds.
This puts Republicans in a bind between conservative hard-liners demanding cuts and moderates opposing reductions to essential health programs.
While Trump claims Medicaid will be untouched, Speaker Mike Johnson argues it has excessive fraud.
Like the IRS, increasing funding to auditing services nets more savings than the input costs.
These people don’t understand long term thinking. Cutting Medicaid will stop the poorest Americans from getting preventative care. This will massively increase the cost to the country when they have to go to the emergency room to try to save their life later on. Our taxes will pay those exorbitant bills.
I read that for every dollar in funding, the IRS brings in five dollars. But it’s long term, so it’s impossible for these fuckers to comprehend.
Bear in mind that the current administration is just as likely to permit hospitals to refuse treatment to the uninsured. Then they can just die and the hospital doesn’t have to worry about pushing the costs of their treatment onto other peoples’ insurance by raising prices.
But if poor white Americans die they don’t make more poor white Americans to support fascism and die in war.
You’re probably right though.