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Medicaid 2025

All things Medicaid financing, regulation and legislation.

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  • Factchecking The White House “Mythbuster” on Medicaid Cuts and Immigrants

    On June 2, 2025, The White House posted a “Mythbuster” fact sheet in defense of the House-passed reconciliation bill. However, the sheet is full of inaccuracies and advances more myths than facts—too many to cover in just one blog. This blog will focus on one prominent false claim, namely that 1.4 million undocumented immigrants will…

  • The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act will Mean Big Budget Hits for Families

    Last month, Congress rushed through the night to pass the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act with last minute changes that would further increase cuts to many federal programs. In the health care sections, the bill primarily targets adults – including many parents and caregivers – who gained health coverage from the Affordable Care Act (ACA)…

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  • Fraud and Abuse Against Medicaid: Rhetoric and Reality in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

    We have not cut Medicaid, and we have not cut SNAP.  What we’re doing…is working on fraud, waste, and abuse. And everyone in Louisiana and around the country understands that that’s a responsibility of Congress….[Medicaid] is intended for vulnerable populations, for young single pregnant women and the elderly and the disabled and people who desperately…

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  • More Fact Checking on Medicaid Spending for Immigrants

    Last week, a member of the Trump administration repeated a claim that the Administration was “kicking illegal immigrants off Medicaid to protect Medicaid for AMERICANS!” This is consistent with misleading talking points that the House-passed reconciliation bill, now under consideration by the Senate, targets cuts on Medicaid spending to undocumented immigrants. But is any of…

  • What Does the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Do to CHIP?

    The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has a long history of bipartisan support. But CHIP is not spared by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HB 1). It’s quite possible bipartisan CHIP supporters were not aware of the impact the bill rammed through the House in the wee hours of night would have on children…