{"id":1051667,"date":"2025-02-25T16:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T21:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1051667"},"modified":"2025-02-25T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T21:24:55","slug":"icymi-new-york-times-as-g-o-p-eyes-medicaid-cuts-states-could-be-left-with-vast-shortfalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-new-york-times-as-g-o-p-eyes-medicaid-cuts-states-could-be-left-with-vast-shortfalls\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: New York Times: As G.O.P. Eyes Medicaid Cuts, States Could be Left With Vast Shortfalls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> <em>\u201cCutting Medicaid spending, which is central to the budget bill that House Republicans may bring to a vote on Tuesday, could result in millions of Americans across the country losing health coverage \u2026 If states picked up the costs from the federal government and kept their expansion populations in place, they would spend more than $600 billion to do so over a decade, an increase of almost 20 percent, according to KFF.<\/em><strong><em> Many states would be short more than $10 billion over a decade, and some larger states, such as New York and California, would face a shortfall of more than $50 billion.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/us\/politics\/medicaid-cuts-republican-budget.html\"><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/a><strong>: As G.O.P. Eyes Medicaid Cuts, States Could be Left With Vast Shortfalls<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Noah Weiland and Sarah Kliff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cutting Medicaid spending, which is central to the budget bill that House Republicans may bring to a vote on Tuesday, <strong>could result in millions of Americans across the country losing health coverage <\/strong>unless states decide to play a bigger role in its funding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>More than 70 percent of Americans say they want Medicaid to stay as it is, <\/strong>according to a survey conducted last year by KFF, a nonprofit health policy research group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jon Tester, the former Democratic senator from Montana, said that Medicaid cuts could have a more <strong>sweeping effect on rural America than urban areas because of how the program sustains impoverished areas with few health providers.<\/strong> \u201cAnd that\u2019s an interesting conundrum because most of rural America is a much deeper red than urban America,\u201d he said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cIf you take away health care, you can\u2019t live there,\u201d Mr. Tester said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If states picked up the costs from the federal government and kept their expansion populations in place, <strong>they would spend more than $600 billion to do so over a decade, an increase of almost 20 percent,<\/strong> according to KFF. Many states would be short more than <strong>$10 billion over a decade, <\/strong>and some larger states, such as New York and California, would face a shortfall of <strong>more than $50 billion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>With Montana\u2019s expansion program set to expire in June, a group of state lawmakers there advanced legislation last week that would extend the program, in part to keep health providers in the heavily rural state solvent. <strong>Roughly 80,000 people in the state now have coverage through the state\u2019s expansion, drastically lowering the state\u2019s uninsured rate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Illinois, another state with a trigger law, roughly a quarter of the state\u2019s Medicaid program is part of the expansion population, and <strong>the state\u2019s uninsured rate dropped by 44 percent after the expansion took effect, <\/strong>said Alex Gough, a spokesman for Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat. The state receives more than $7 billion for that group, Mr. Gough added.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cThreats to coverage would spell catastrophe,\u201d he said. He added that eliminating the Medicaid expansion \u201cwould cause major disruption to the state\u2019s health care infrastructure that relies on Medicaid funding and, ultimately, its economy.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cCutting Medicaid spending, which is central to the budget bill that House Republicans may bring to a vote on Tuesday, could result in millions of Americans across the country losing health coverage \u2026 If states picked up the costs from the federal government and kept their expansion populations in place, they would spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: New York Times: As G.O.P. 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