House Republicans continue to plan to cut Medicaid and food stamps, reducing millions of coverage

On Tuesday, three House committees put forward an agenda that would make it harder for older people, disabled people, children and working families to meet their basic needs, such as food and health care. To sum up, these agendas will cut the benefits of low-income families while reducing taxes for those with higher incomes. A total of 14 million people can terminate the coverage, and nearly 4 million people have lost food aid.

Entering Medicaid

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, the committee on Medicaid jurisdiction, has approved massive Medicaid cuts, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) program, which will result in 10.3 million people losing Medicaid coverage and 76 to 8.6 million uninsured people. Among those who lose coverage, millions will be eligible for Medicaid that relies on Medicaid and helps pay for Medicaid.

Medicaid changes include adding heavy work report requirements for certain populations and requiring them to prove that they are working before they get any care. We know from past research and experiments that if the goal is to help people find employment, then the job report requirements don’t work. They just terminated the coverage of those who needed it.

These new requirements can also add new care costs; cut back on opportunities for retrospective coverage, a lifeline for those who don’t know they are eligible or unable to apply for help; and get rid of a pair of regulations to make it easier for people to access Medicaid and Medicare savings programs to promote Medicaid through administrative burdens and paperwork.

The text also identifies a proposed rule that would undermine the access, affordability and coverage of market plans.

Cut

The House Agriculture Committee has approved massive cuts to the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as “food stamps.” These cuts include changes that shift costs to states; adding new work report requirements for people aged 55 to 64; adding new work report requirements for parents of school-aged children (no children aged 6 or under); bar associations seek exemptions from work requirements due to lack of work in a certain area; and preventing future governments from increasing food benefits in response to emergencies such as COVID-19 or recession.

The former Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated the work and the exemption proposal, and expected 3 to 3.5 million people to lose all opportunities to obtain SNAP benefits, of which 100,000 to 150,000 lost some benefits. Experts predict that the cuts, coupled with the proposed cost transfer to states, will emphasize national budgets, economies and farmers and lead to further cuts in losses. Importantly, snapshot requirements are not helping people find jobs. Instead, they are simply expelled from the process.

Market plan participants lose enhanced premium tax credits

The Tax Commission’s Tax Commission approved a set of tax policies that exclude the expansion of enhanced premium tax credits, which are currently helping people pay for health insurance through an Affordable Care Act (ACA) market plan. The CBO expects that the failure to expand these credits will result in millions of people without insurance above the Medicaid number.

What's next

The whole house still had to vote on these policies, and profits were very tight, so there was no guarantee that House Republicans could pass a comprehensive settlement bill by voting. If the house does pass, the Senate will put it into practice. Experts predict that the Senate will have to make some changes to the bill to pass the chamber, but any changes could bother some House Republicans. Ultimately, both rooms must incorporate the bill into law through the same text.

Medicaid cuts are cuts to Medicare

Under Medicare rights, we know that our entire health system is intertwined and that cutting Medicaid is a cut to Medicare. Market and snapshot coverage are also crucial to people’s well-being and financial stability.

For these reasons, we strongly oppose termination of Medicaid and snapshot coverage (including increased traditional Chinese tape festivals and job requirements), or reduce assistance to market consumers. The health consequences of losing access to high-quality, affordable health care and food cannot be exaggerated. We call on all policy makers to make it easier for people to meet their basic needs than harder.

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