The liberals and the mainstream media are using scare tactics to upend efforts to bring much-needed transparency, accountability, and fairness to the Medicaid program. In reality, it is the blind defense of the status quo that will ultimately undermine the Medicaid program for those who need it.
A key proposal being considered by the House is whether federal funding for Medicaid expansion should remain as is or whether it is time for Congress to bring federal funding for this added category of enrollees in line with other Medicaid populations.
This debate ties back to Obamacare where the authors not only attempted to bribe the states to expand their Medicaid programs with an enormous bump in federal support but also attempted to punish those states that did not expand by threatening to remove all their Medicaid funding. The Supreme Court stepped in and struck the…
