Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Find Out podcast. We have a great show for you today. We've talked a lot about the big, what we call big bullshit bill here. And we're going to dig into that a little bit more because we have Jakita Brooks LaSure, who is with us, who was the former administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the Biden administration.

And if you are curious as to what that role is, it is the one that Dr. Oz has now.

So we're going to dive into it.

So, Chiquita, thank you for joining us today.

We really appreciate it.

It's my pleasure to be here.

So the first thing we want to really just dive

into, because there's been a lot of talk about the roughly trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid

in particular. You know, obviously that is a number that is massive. It is hard for people,

I think, to grasp just how massive. So if we do nothing, which we're going to talk about how there are some ways

that maybe we can like claw this some of this back, what's going to happen to people that

rely on Medicaid across the country? This is such, it's just impossible to overstate what a big

deal this cut of a trillion dollars is going to do to our health care system.

Medicaid is a lifeline for so many families.

So we certainly think of the poorest among us, the low income of this country who depend on Medicaid.

It is also a great supporter of the middle class. Half of the births in this

country are paid for by Medicaid and CHIP. Most of the children who are born into this country,

who have some kind of health need, who have a developmental issue, who have, um, uh, need an organ transplant.

It is usually Medicaid that ends up paying for that.

And it has served as a lifeline for so many families that depend on this coverage to make

sure their children get the care that they need, as well as millions of people

who are older, who need home and community-based services, nursing homes. And the way I think of this

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