Liz Esley White
Appearances
WSJ What’s News
Medicaid Cuts: What’s on the Table and What It Means for You
For example, cap the amount that the federal government gives per person to states. They could lower their contributions to richer states such as California and New York that already have a lot of state funding for Medicaid and theoretically could afford to get a lower federal contribution. They could get rid of a lot of the funding for Medicaid expansion.
WSJ What’s News
Medicaid Cuts: What’s on the Table and What It Means for You
When Medicaid expanded under the Affordable Care Act, it came with it this promise that if your state signed up for expansion, the federal government was going to pay 90 percent for all those newly eligible people. One proposal is that the federal contribution for those people would drop.
WSJ What’s News
Medicaid Cuts: What’s on the Table and What It Means for You
And if that happens, there are a number of states that just can't afford to keep going with the expansion and they'll likely get rid of it or cut it back severely.
WSJ What’s News
Medicaid Cuts: What’s on the Table and What It Means for You
Medicaid is one of the main payers of behavioral health services for low-income kids and families. So how will these potential cuts to Medicaid impact poor kids who are receiving mental health services through systems like schools, the justice system, and the child welfare system.
WSJ What’s News
Medicaid Cuts: What’s on the Table and What It Means for You
Medicaid work requirements are probably the most popular on the Republican side of the aisle. So this would say that most likely able-bodied Medicaid recipients without small children need to be working or seeking work or volunteering in order to be eligible for Medicaid. There's a number of other things they could do.