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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Democrats are fighting the last war on Medicaid

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See update at bottom for the purest expression of emerging Republican policy and messaging in the drive to cut Medicaid— from Brian Blase, Republicans’ chief ideologist on this front.

What’s wrong with this Democratic Party broadside against Republican plans to cut federal Medicaid funding?


The problem: In their likeliest path to cutting Medicaid, Republicans may well leave coverage for kids and seniors more or less untouched. They’re gunning for a different group of enrollees: 20 million low-income adults rendered eligible by the ACA Medicaid expansion.