Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid, the entitlement that provides health coverage to roughly 1 in 5 people. Requiring beneficiaries to work, volunteer, or attend school as a condition of receiving coverage and block-granting federal Medicaid funds to the states are under consideration.
But with complete control of Congress and the White House, Republicans should think bigger and repeal Obamacare’s fiscally irresponsible expansion of Medicaid to able-bodied people.
Congress originally created Medicaid to provide healthcare for disabled and vulnerable people. But the Affordable Care Act allowed states to offer Medicaid coverage to able-bodied people earning up to 138% of the federal poverty line. Forty states and the District of Columbia have signed on and added 21 million people to the program, bringing the number of enrollees across Medicaid and the…
