Health Affairs March 17, 2025
Editor’s Note
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund. Articles in this topic will offer timely analysis of regulatory, legislative, and judicial developments in health policy under the Trump-Vance Administration and the 119th Congress.
It is starting to feel like 2017 all over again, and not in a good way.
When the House last month passed a budget resolution that calls for $880 billion in savings from the Energy & Commerce Committee, it sent a strong signal that Republicans plan to pursue deep cuts to the Medicaid program. As a letter from the Congressional Budget Office confirms, Medicaid accounts for 93 percent...