Republicans defend the reform of Medicaid as Democrats warn of harmful cuts

Since the president, Democrats have remedied against potential medicaid cuts Donald Trump Won the 2024 presidential elections. Now that “Big, Beautiful Bill” has gone through the congress, they make Medicaid a pinnacle for competing interim elections that are expected in 2026.

Meanwhile, republicans are doubling in the meantime Medicaid reform included In Trump’s Megabill, who also includes radical legislation on taxes, immigration and energy.

“My policy is when you are a valid employee, get a damn job,” said Rep. Nancy Mace, RS.C., Fox News Digital told. “If you want the government benefits, go to work and get a job.”

A provision in the Megabill requires valid, childless adults between the ages of 18 and 64 to work at least 80 hours a month to be eligible to receive medicaid benefits. Individuals can also meet the requirement by participating in services to the community, going to school or entering into a work program.

Republicans prizes ‘Big, beautiful Bill’s’ Work requirement for Medicaid: ‘We have to go back to work’

FOX News Digital asked legislators on Capitol Hill or have to pay taxpayers for Medicaid accounts for valid employees who are younger than 65 and unemployed.

‘Dirls Down the Line’: Medicaid reform in ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ divides legislators per party

Senator Angus King, an independent Van Maine, said in both Arkansas and Georgia, where work requirements have already been imposed, it ultimately cost more money to manage the work requirements.

“We are talking about a very small population, and in the two cases in which they tried it, it ended, number one, who disqualified people who met all the requirements but gave up the paperwork. These are not people who are used to filling in a lot of paperwork every month. And it also cost the state a lot to manage,” King said.

The New England Journal of Medicine thought that Arkansas’ Medicaid -Work requirement From 2018 to 2019 “found no evidence of more employment … and a considerable loss of medicoid coverage in adults with a low income.”

Likewise, the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute (GBPI) reported that 80% of the $ 58 million that was published in the first year of Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage program went to administrative costs.

But Sen. Katie BrittR-Ala., Emphasized that Republicans ‘want these programs to be there for the people they need’. She said that the reform of Medicaid is about “strengthening and maintaining these programs with the speed they grow.”

“These programs were intended as safety nets, no hammocks in which people stay, and the success of these programs must be measured from the number of people we pick up from them,” said Britt.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Eatens and told Fox News Digital: “What you don’t want is that someone becomes dependent. I would tell people: catch nets should bounce you up. They should not be as a flight paper in which you stay and never get out.”

“We don’t say,” Hey, we’re not throwing you away. ” Okay, but you have to get a job.

But Democrats He spoke with Fox News Digital continued to reduce against the work requirements included in the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’.

“I think people [who] Being able to work, believe me, they would rather work than to get the Piddling dollars they get from Medicaid. It is offensive to suggest that a person would rather sit at home instead of working and getting this meager amount. All this is just completely extensive to fit a story with which they can cut in those people who really earn Medicaid, “said Rep. Troy Carter, D-La.

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And rep. Lateeuwah Simon, D-Calif., Said: “We must be able to have an infrastructure in this country that supports the elderly and the sick and the widows and the child. This bill violates all those basic principles.”

Fox News’ Peter Pinedo has contributed to this report.