This week, House Republicans are laboring to pass proposals to reform Medicaid, the fast-growing system of federal funding for states to deliver health care to low-income Americans, as part of President Trump’s “big beautiful” budget bill.
Their proposal creates the appearance of generating substantial savings by nudging states to restrict enrollment — notably by mandating an 80-hour-per-month work requirement for able-bodied adults to receive the benefit.
Liberals responded to the House’s modest proposals with predictable outrage.
Matthew Yglesias called it a “war on the poor,” arguing that the bill’s cuts “will cause 8.6 million people to lose their health insurance.”
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Chris Pope is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on Twitter here. This piece is adapted from City Journal.
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