While the Senate considers a bill on domestic policy aimed at promulgating the White House agenda, President Trump and his allies sought to appease the concerns of certain legislators concerning his price and the reduction of Medicaid with inaccurate allegations.
They rejected the estimates of the effect of “large and beautiful bill” on the deficit as incorrect and describe the reductions of the health insurance program for the poor Americans as a simple “waste, fraud and abuse”.
Here is a verification of the facts of some of their claims.
What was said
Edwin Park, professor at the University of Georgetown, whose research focuses on Medicaid and the children’s health insurance program, said that certain provisions could be considered a reduction in “waste, fraud and abuses”, as growing assessments to ensure that beneficiaries have not died.
But Most of the other provisions Finding in several categories of cuts and restrictions, according to Professor Park, targeting the expansion of Medicaid, limiting the capacity of states to finance Medicaid, imposing administrative formalities on the beneficiaries, in revival of protections against medical debt, forcing states to remove the coverage and the limitation of access to long -term care and care.
