Trump's war on Medicaid

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' Jessica Schubel explains how Medicaid works, and how the White House is trying to undermine it. Join the Weeds Facebook group! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sarah Cliff is no longer with us on the weeds, so I've been really missing the opportunity
0:03.6	to sort of munk out about health care.
0:05.7	I was really excited to sit down with Jessica Schubel from the Center on Budget and Policy
0:09.2	Priorities.
0:10.2	She's an expert on Medicaid, a really important weeds-friendly health care program that
0:15.2	there are a lot of changes happening to in the Trump era.
0:17.7	We had a really great conversation, I think you can learn a lot from.
0:30.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:37.8	I'm Matthew Glacius.
0:38.8	My guest today is Jessica Schubel.
0:41.0	She is a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, favorite
0:45.2	think tank of mine.
0:46.2	A lot of great stuff out there.
0:48.4	Jessica focuses on Medicaid, which is a very important program and is going to explain
0:54.2	it all to us.
0:55.2	This has been big.
0:57.1	The Trump administration has done a lot on Medicaid with waivers, things like that.
1:01.4	That's what I want to talk about.
1:03.6	But I think it's important for people to understand what are we even talking about here.
1:08.6	So I'm going to ask a really basic question.
1:11.8	What is Medicaid?
1:12.8	I'm happy to answer that.
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