Who are Medicaid Cuts Really For?

The House and Senate passed a concurrent budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2025 on April 10th. This resolution serves as a blueprint for the budget process and sets targets for congressional committees.  It calls for an $880 billion dollar reduction to the Energy and Commerce, which oversees Medicaid and Medicare.

The Energy and Commerce Committee advanced its portion of the reconciliation billon May14th.  It proposes reducing spending in the Medicaid program by $715 billion 2025-2034. It creates greater bureaucracy, red tape and ultimatily less funding for states.

The proposals advanced to the House and Budget Committee as part of a large bill that was voted don on Friday May 16th. There is another attempt to pass the bill,  if it passes it goes on to the rules committee. If the House passes a bill, it then goes to the Senate.

Tracking the Medicaid Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill

View a summary of the Medicaid provisions included in the legislation approved by the Energy and Commerce Committee compared to current law at KFF .

Federal Medicaid Cuts Would Force States To Eliminate Services for Disabled Adults, Older Adults, and Children

The reconciliation bill that passed out of committee in the House proposes cutting Medicaid and therefore gutting essential services upon which disabled and older people rely.  Read the full article at American Progress.

Advocacy Groups: Medicaid Cuts Would Adversely Impact Home-Community-Based Services

The National Alliance for Care at Home released a statement opposing the Medicaid reductions. “Although we recognize that leadership in the House and Senate have expressed support for preserving services to these populations, we do not believe that it is possible to reduce Federal Medicaid expenditures by hundreds of billions of dollars over a ten-year period without negatively impacting eligibility and access to care.” Read the full article at Hospice News.