What Next | Daily News and Analysis Here’s How the GOP Cuts Medicaid
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May 20, 2025 Leo Cuello, a research professor at Georgetown's McCourt School and healthcare policy expert, discusses the GOP's push to impose work requirements on Medicaid. He argues that these requirements, based on flawed data, primarily benefit financial interests rather than those in need. Cuello highlights the failures of similar policies from the 1990s, illustrating how they lead to significant insurance losses for individuals, including working citizens. He critiques the costly bureaucratic hurdles and societal implications of such measures, revealing the precarious situation for millions accessing healthcare.
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Medicaid Separated From Welfare
- In the 1990s, Congress separated Medicaid from cash welfare, recognizing Medicaid wasn't traditional welfare anymore.
- Healthcare was put on a different track because it was no longer seen as welfare but a separate healthcare program.
Work Requirements Fail To Boost Jobs
- Work requirements for Medicaid have not increased employment.
- Instead, they have led to many people losing their health insurance.
Adrian McGonigal's Tragic Story
- Adrian McGonigal, a working man with COPD, lost his Medicaid coverage due to work requirement reporting errors.
- This loss caused health decline, job loss, and immense stress before he died at 46.