GOP’s scaled-back Medicaid plan still threatens coverage for millions – The Washington Post
Republican lawmakers are calling for work requirements, stricter eligibility verification and some co-pays.
May 12, 2025 at 5:31 p.m. EDT, yesterday at 5:31 p.m. EDT, 5 min
By Paige Winfield Cunningham and Jacob Bogage
While Republicans touted savings under their Medicaid plan, Democrats charged that the savings would come from people losing their health coverage. (Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images)Republicans’ plans to cut health care as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and immigration agenda could strip Medicaid coverage from 8.7 million people and lead to 7.6 million more uninsured people over 10 years, according to an estimate from Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper in documents obtained by The Washington Post.
The text of the legislation, released Sunday night by the House committee that oversees health care, calls for new requirements for beneficiaries, including co-pays for those above 100 percent of the federal poverty level and work requirements for many able-bodied, childless adults. It also tightens up eligibility verification rules and limits taxes that states charge medical providers as a roundabout way of collecting more federal Medicaid dollars.
Because Republicans aren’t aiming to change federal contributions to Medicaid, which is funded jointly by states and the federal government, the savings would largely come from people dropping out of the program.
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