FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Chip Roy is taking on Medicaid expansion, introducing a bill Friday that he says will prevent “able-bodied adults” from taking advantage of Obamacare expansion.
The Texas lawmaker’s bill comes as his fellow Republicans are debating how they will reach an $880 billion cut over 10 years in their budget markup for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction on Medicaid.
“Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion perpetuates a scam in which states get seven times as much money from the federal government for able-bodied adults than the traditional Medicaid population, including pregnant women, children, disabled people, and the elderly,” said Roy in a statement to The Daily Signal.
Roy claims that his bill “would achieve $250 billion in savings while having minimal disruption in coverage.”
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