KFF March 18, 2025
Medicaid is the primary program providing comprehensive coverage of health and long-term care to 83 million low-income people in the United States and accounts for one-fifth of health care spending. Medicaid is jointly financed by states and the federal government but administered by states within federal rules. The recently passed House budget resolution targets cuts to Medicaid of up to $880 billion or more over a decade. While several options appear to be under consideration to significantly reduce Medicaid spending, President Trump publicly said recently about Medicaid, “We are not going to touch it. Now, we are going to look for fraud.” Speaker Johnson has said, “Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse.”...