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It's Monday, July 7th, and this is your chopo. On today's episode, Felix and I are

joined once again by our good friend Tim Faust to talk about the big, beautiful bill, and his area

of expertise, Medicaid. Tim, it's great to have you back on the show. Tim Faust, the man who

sold his soul to the devil for knowledge about public policy.

That's right. That's what I'm all about.

You know, one of these days I'll come on the show, well, we're not in the middle of a terrible crisis.

But until then, I'm happy to be here once again.

Well, yeah, like, this is sort of doubling down.

We had you on not too long ago to talk about Medicaid, but now it appears that

all the bad things have indeed come to Paris, and it really does look like Medicaid. That's what's

on the chopping block in this big beautiful bill, through either through work requirements or cuts.

Tim, like, just of what you've seen so far of the big beautiful bill, and like from your

perspective on what will this do to not just Medicaid, but to the health care system

overall in the United States? Sure. So as, as you mentioned, kind of the big centerpiece

of the Medicaid cuts are the introduction of work requirements, which mean that if you are

in the expansion population, you need to certify that you've done 80 hours of work requirements, which mean that if you are in the expansion population,

you need to certify that you've done 80 hours of work or community engagement over the past month,

which doesn't sound like that much, but the act of doing that is a huge pain in the ass, right?

Like there's a lot of infrastructure that be in place, a lot of paperwork.

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