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What Next | Here’s How the GOP Cuts Medicaid

What Next | Here’s How the GOP Cuts Medicaid

Update: 2025-05-20
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In a return to a classic party policy goal, Republicans want to add “work requirements” to Medicaid to offset costs in Trump’s “one big beautiful bill.” Work requirements for health insurance have been tried before, on the state level, and the end result is a lot of people—including working people—losing their health insurance.


Guest:  Leo Cuello, research professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families and former Health Policy Director of the National Health Law Program.


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What Next | Here’s How the GOP Cuts Medicaid

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