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What Congress Is Saying About Medicaid Reform

April showers bring May…Medicaid reform. That’s right, the hottest topic on Capitol Hill is how to make sure Medicaid is healthy for the long haul and able to serve people who truly need it.

In case you missed it, here’s the rundown:

As part of the reconciliation budget process, Congress is looking for (and finding!) taxpayer savings all across the federal budget.

One of the biggest opportunities for cost-saving reform is to eliminate some waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid, such as improper payments, sweetheart deals, money laundering, and giving taxpayer-funded welfare benefits to illegal immigrants. Promoting work instead of welfare for able-bodied adults without young children is also a major opportunity to improve lives and preserve resources for the truly needy.

Despite Democrats’ hysterics over “cuts” to Medicaid, these reforms don’t even reduce spending—they merely slow it down over the next decade. The fact that there’s a potential for nearly $1 trillion in savings and it wouldn’t reduce spending should tell you all you need to know about the unsustainable path our Medicaid program is currently on. For more on that, click here.

The crocodile tears from the Left aren’t working. When told the truth about Medicaid spending, Americans support the Republican plan—or want it to go even further.

Reforming Medicaid is urgent and essential.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA): Do not believe the lies!

The Hill | Speaker Johnson: US must ‘eliminate people on Medicaid’ who are not ‘eligible to be there’

“The president has made absolutely clear many times, as we have as well, that we’re going to protect Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, for people who are legally beneficiaries of those programs,” Johnson told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“There are a lot of Americans who rely upon those — those programs, and we’ve got to ensure that they’re safeguarded,” he said. “At the same time, we have to root out fraud, waste and abuse, we have to eliminate on, for example, on Medicaid who are not actually eligible to be there. Able-bodied workers, for example, young men, who are — who should never be on the program at all,” he added.

“And … when you have people on the program that are draining the resources, it takes it away from the people that are actually needing it the most and are intended to receive it. You’re talking about young single mothers down on their fortunes at the moment, the people with the real disabilities, the elderly.”

Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA): 

Bonus: Leader Scalise also recently spoke to CNBC’s Squawk Box, sharing why so many of his colleagues support the reconciliation bill. Key quote: “Obviously, work requirements in Medicaid is the place you would start.”


Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN): 

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX):

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD):

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX):

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT):

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH):


Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO):


Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA):



Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY): 

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY):

Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO):

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA):

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX):

Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-OK):

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI):

Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI):


Rep. Keith Self (R-TX):

Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX):

NPR | House budget bill should preserve Medicaid’s ‘original purpose,’ says Rep. Jeff Hurd

Rep. Jeff Hurd: 

“My district is Colorado’s Third Congressional District and nearly one in three people in that district rely on Medicaid. When I talk about vulnerable populations from my perspective, I’m talking on preserving the original purpose of Medicaid, providing health care for low-income groups, people like children, seniors who are dual enrolled in Medicare, pregnant women, individuals with disabilities, and families who can’t afford private insurance.”

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