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Medicaid Spending Reductions, Part III

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Policy Options and Alternatives to Reduce Medicaid Costs This is part three of a series I wrote on Medicaid spending reductions (proposed). Recent Republican budgets have targeted Medicaid for $800 plus billion in spending reductions. This final post in the series covers the likely choices available from a policy perspective, to achieve the savings target. … Read more

Medicaid Spending Reductions: What to Know

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Medicaid potential spending cuts have been in the news, elevated by the passage of the recent Republican Continuing (spending) Resolution. As Donald Trump ran and got elected on a platform of spending reduction/debt reduction (austerity) including the activation of DOGE (Dept. of Government Efficiency) to identify spending reduction opportunities, program behemoths like Medicare and Medicaid … Read more