Oregonian Article Rating

Proposed Medicaid cuts feel like personal affront to caregivers, patients

Mar 08, 2025 View Original Article
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    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    85% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    16% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : " In Oregon, Rep. Cliff Bentz gets an earful The House late last month approved a Republican budget plan that could shrink Medicaid spending by $880 billion over 10 years, only partially paying for an extension of expiring tax cuts from President Donald Trump's first term, plus some new ones he has promised, totaling as much as $4.5 trillion.
50% : Still, he voted for the House budget proposal last week, despite the fact that about two-thirds of the population in his district is on Medicaid -- the highest in the state -- and even though he is one of eight GOP House members who sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson warning about the "serious consequences" of deep cuts to Medicaid.
49% : Medi-Cal, the state's version of Medicaid, pays Williams to care for them, and she relies on that income, just as her sister and daughter depend on her.
46% : But her constituents delivered their message loud and clear to her and the other Republicans in Congress: Hands off Medicaid.
42% : He vowed the GOP would not touch Social Security or Medicare.
41% : The coalition has reprised a campaign -- part of a broader national movement -- that fought against the GOP's unsuccessful 2017 effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
40% : Cynthia Williams is furious with U.S. House Republicans willing to slash Medicaid, the government-run insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities.
40% : He did not offer similar assurances on Medicaid, but said, "We are not interested in cutting the social and healthcare safety net for children, disabled, and low-income Americans.
37% : Republican support, whether from fiscal hawks who want deeper spending cuts or House members worried about slashing Medicaid, could ebb and flow as the details are hashed out.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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