Big Cuts To Medicaid Reportedly On The Menu For House Republicans

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "We ought to look at whether we're doing [Medicaid] the right way," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said after the election in November, as Republicans were first starting to talk about their congressional agenda for this year.
53% : This is the kind of language many conservatives now use to describe ending the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, under which the federal government provides states with extra money in order to make Medicaid available to anybody with income below or just above the poverty line.
50% : Among the health care proposals it considers are a call for "site-neutral" payments in Medicare, a cost-cutting measure designed to stop hospitals and other providers of care from gaming the payment system to make more money.
49% : The other familiar element is a call for "per capita caps" in Medicaid, which would effectively end the federal government's commitment to funding the program at whatever level it takes to cover everybody who's eligible.
48% : All told, the new cuts together would reduce federal spending by $5.7 trillion over ten years.
47% : The proposed food assistance costs would affect tens of millions of Americans, while the cuts to clean energy subsidies would undermine a manufacturing boom that's been generating jobs and money all across the country -- including a new "battery belt" of electric vehicle production infrastructure across the South.
45% : The Medicaid cuts in particular include two elements that will be familiar to anybody who remembers Republican attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, the first time Donald Trump became president back in 2017.
43% : Cuts to Medicaid that could cause millions of Americans to lose health insurance are on a list of budget options now circulating among House Republicans, according to a new report from Politico.
40% : And Medicaid may be a particularly tempting target now, given Republicans' pledges to slash federal spending and to find offsets for the sweeping tax cuts they hope to enact.
36% : Those fears were a big reason Republican legislation to repeal Obamacare ultimately failed to pass, generating a political backlash against the party on health care policy that lingers to this day.
36% : Still, Medicaid has remained the object of conservative criticism.

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