PolitiFact

By: Joshua Gillin

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said all the media coverage that declares the Republican health care bills would cut Medicaid is wrong, because he claimed the program actually gets a significant boost over the years.

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“There are two reasons Medicaid costs go up: More people are being served and the cost of serving them is going up,” said Joan Alker, Georgetown University public policy professor and executive director of the Center for Children and Families.

“CBO’s baseline projects what Medicaid will need to account for these factors,” Alker said.

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