GOP Governors Mum as Congress Moves To Slash Medicaid Spending for Their States - KFF Health News
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In 2017, when President Donald Trump tried to repeal Obamacare and roll back Medicaid coverage, Republican governors helped turn Congress against it. Now, as Trump tries again to scale back Medicaid, Republican governors — whose constituents stand to lose federal funding and health coverage — have gone quiet on the health consequences.

The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way: GOP governors.

Now, as Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years through Trump’s tax and spending legislation, red-state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care — even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar holes in their states’ budgets.

Medicaid, a program jointly run by states and the federal government, covers more than 70 million low-income or disabled people, including nearly half of the nation’s children. Republicans say the $900 billion-a-year program was allowed to grow too large under Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden by adding nondisabled adults they say don’t deserve government assistance, and they have long sought to scale it back.

  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    Nah, they don’t care about their constituents. By now they know that if you’re still voting conservative you’ve already drank the Kool-aid. If you were going to vote them out for cutting Medicaid you would have voted them out years ago when they refused to expand Medicaid.

    The only reason it won’t hurt some conservative states just as much as blue states is because there was already less healthcare infrastructure to begin with. My state has already shut down the majority of rural hospitals when we refused to accept free money from the Fed to expand Medicaid for like a decade.