Why Medicaid Cuts Are In The GOP Tax Bill
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 1:12.2 | And NPR health policy correspondent, Selena Simmons-Duffin is with us today. Hey, Selena. |
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| 1:16.8 | All right. So today on the show, we're talking about what the congressional spending bill that House Republicans passed already would mean for programs like Medicaid. And Selena, I'm going to start with you. Can be a complicated topic, but let's just do some like big picture explaining here. What is Medicaid who qualifies to get it? Okay. So just in case anybody's confused about this, Medicare, Medicaid, different programs. Medicare is the program for people who are 65 and older. |
| 1:48.8 | Medicaid is the program for anyone low income across the country. |
| 1:51.3 | And it's a really different system. |
| 1:56.9 | It's actually a shared program between the federal government and the states. And every dollar spent in Medicaid has some coming from states and some coming from the federal government to give coverage to low-income people, whether they are kids or everybody else, adults, all the way through elderly people. |
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