Baxter Morgan

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AHLA's Speaking of Health Law · Financing Medicaid Payments: Past, Present, and Future After the OBBBA · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

And it also imposes limits on some fee for service programs, whereas the bill was really targeted at uh

at managed care programs, but you know

Regardless, th there's it's it's a it's it it really is the sausage making in process is is where we're at now.

I don't know, what what what do you see on that front?

I I think something that gets kind of lost in this discussion is a lot of times people well, it is funny, I think Kat and I have both experiences where people, you know, confuse Medicaid and Medicare.

And so we get past that level.

But you know, Medicaid, a lot of people view it as it's a program just to treat the poor.

Okay, that's fair.

Um, Medicaid's also the largest insurance program in the country.

It covers more lives than any other program.

Medicare, treating the elderly, spends more because of the cost of end-of-life care and other issues, but Medicaid is the largest insurer uh nationwide.

And it constitutes a huge portion of the patient volumes at hospitals and for other providers around the country.

I mean, half of the births in Texas, most states are at least at that level, are Medicaid births.

It is just a constant and substantial portion of the patient volume that that states see that that each state sees in their hospitals, in their physician offices.

And

You know.

Drop dropping this off a cliff, which is effectively what it is, because once once you kind of get to the edge.

If you reduce, if you take a trillion dollars out of the healthcare system, which is what OB3 is intended to do over the next decade, through reductions in payment limits, through, you know, reductions in the ability of states to support those programs, and reductions in the the patients who were covered by Medicaid programs.

We just saw a rule regarding the work requirements come out that I think also extended beyond what was initially stated in the in the

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