The draft law that a member of Congress says protects medicaid – and is likely to require it to be cut off

Jolly Apple, KFF Health News

“On February 25, I voted yes on the budget decision that protects social security, medical care and medicaid while cutting some spending elsewhere.”

Representative Nick Lalota (RN.Y.), in a video on YouTube, was published on March 4, 2025

On February 25, Representative Nick Lalota (RN.Y.) voted in favor of a Home budget decision This calls for sharp discounts in spending through a wide range of governmental areas. Medicaid is among the programs that can be in danger – which makes it at the center of political debate.

President Donald Trump insisted He will not harm Medicaid and Medicare’s advantages and social security, saying that his administration is looking to eradicate fraud. But the Democrats retreatedSaying that the huge size of the proposed discounts will lead to damage to the Medicaid program, its mosque and medical service providers.

KFF tracking poll General support was found widely for Medicaid, indicating that efforts to reduce the program may face the political opposite winds. KFF is a non -profit health information that includes KFF Health News.

Louta, who represents part of Long Island, Publish a video To explain his voters his position: “I voted yes on the budget decision that protects social security, medical care and medicaid while lowering some spending elsewhere.” Because a lot of his video focused on Medicaid, we also did. We have found that his statement in this regard had been put in place with poor landmarks and inaccuracy. However, in his video, Lalota recommends that he get his information directly from him, saying: “I will always be honest with you.”

We asked the Lotta office to obtain the information he used to support his statement. In a statement sent by the budget decision, he wrote any discounts for these programs, as he wrote in a statement sent by his assistant in communications, Mary Uhar. “Instead, it opens the door to protect medicaid through proper charging solutions that guarantee its availability to those Americans who qualify, including removing illegitimate menus, and working requirements for adults who are able, eliminating waste, fraud and abuse.”

Let’s dream what the decision says and make, and the changes that can lead to Medicaid.

Essential explanation

Budget decisions are not a law, but are plans for legislators on budget legislation. The decision that was passed to the house-was approved 217 Republicans Voting in its favor and 214 democratic and republics against – it is just one part of the budget process. The Senate also has an opinion, so the changes are possible.

As is written, the decision seeks wide -spent discounts through a group of areas supervised by different committees. It specifically requests the Parliamentary and Trade Council Committee to submit proposals to “reduce the deficit by at least 880,000,000 dollars [$880 billion] During the period of financial years 2025 until 2034.

He does not say that he will protect medical aid. Medicaid is not anywhere in the document. No specific action in the program, such as creating work requirements for the recipient. Legislators formulate the legislation separately to make adjustments to the program to achieve the goals of reducing spending.

Small wallpaper: Medicaid is a government-rated program that provides medical coverage for low-income population, as well as payments for elderly care for the care of the elderly and the disabled population. Medicaid and the health insurance program for children closely related More than 79 million people.

Medicare is the federal program This provides health insurance for some disabled people and most people over 65 years old. More than 68 million people were registered.

The decision directs the committee to formulate the legislative language that will reduce spending from the areas subject to its judicial authority, which includes Medicaid and about half of the medicare.

The Social Security Committee is mainly supervised by the House of Representatives by the Roads and Means Committee. The committee also shares a specialty on medical care with energy and trade.

Politics experts And Congress budget office They said that after removing Medicare from looking, there is not enough under the committee’s jurisdiction to reduce $ 880 billion without significantly reducing spending on medical aid. (Medicare is generally a third rail because the beneficiaries of it is a strong voting block.)

In fact, of $ 8.8 trillion of expected spending under the jurisdiction of the committee for a period of 10 years, medicaid represents 8.2 trillion dollars, or 93 %.

“Even if the committee cancels all non -sectarian and non -sectarian spending, they still have to reduce Medicaid by more than 700 billion dollars,” said Alice Burns, assistant director of the KFF program on the Medicaid and the unbeliever.

Add work requirements – most of the beneficiaries of Medicaid have jobs – will not result from this level of savings and It can increase the costs of the state. Other discounts suggested by Republicans, including the Federal spending status for each registrar, reduce federal conformity dollars, and the elimination of the use of supplier taxes, which the states use to pay the costs of spending from the relevant spending, may force the states to reduce spending or find new revenue sources.

“The discounts in Medicaid can get rid of children’s coverage, parents, adults, or those who may need long -term care; reduce interest; or reduce payment rates for health plans or service providers. These options can come at a time when state revenues grow, and most states face requirements to pass balanced budgets,” according to Robin’s analysis Rudowitz, KFF president and its office.

Edwin Park, a research professor at the Children’s and Families Center at Georgetown University, said that the effects of this if the budget that was passed at home will be entertained will be widely wide and change the safety network program significantly.

He pointed to an increasing opposition to such medical discounts on a large scale of “beneficiaries and parents of children with disabilities, families who have parents in the care homes, and from health care providers.”

He said: “Medicine discounts are not very popular even among Trump’s voters.”

Joseph Antos, an honorary colleague at the American Projects Institute, pointed out that Medicid’s opposition to Tess helped kill an attempt to cancel the sponsorship law at reasonable prices during the first Trump administration.

Antos believes that the current goal to reduce spending is unrealistic and is likely not to escape efforts to integrate the Parliament’s budget plan with what the Senate wants to do.

“In the end, the problem is that you cannot get a lot of medicaid,” said Antos.

Lalota’s focus on immigrants who lack the legal status as a way to reduce federal spending on Medicaid is also misleading.

A number of countriesIncluding New York, it offers coverage for children or adults regardless of the migration status, but they can only use state funds to pay for such programs.

“The states cannot use federal financing to cover immigrants,” Burns said. So removing it “will not do anything to reduce the deficit.”

Our rule

“On February 25, I voted yes on the budget decision that protects social security, medical care and medicaid while lowering some spending elsewhere,” Lotta said.

His statement is inaccurate and misrepresentation of the landmarks of the laws and the language included in the budget decision, which creates a wrong impression on what his voting supported.

The 32 -word sentence does not include the Energy and Trade Committee to trim 880 billion dollars over 10 years of programs that are permissible by any protection, handrails, or specific directions to follow up on the painting.

We evaluate this false claim.