Politico October 21, 2025
FRAME GAME — Americans have stopped viewing Medicaid as “welfare.”
Instead, they now see it as health care.
Even about 45 percent of Republicans — who once were much more likely to understand the program as welfare — shared that view last year, according to polls by health research organization KFF. More recent KFF polls found high levels of support for Medicaid across the political spectrum.
Over the summer, though, Republicans made cuts to the program as part of the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” And as they try to sell these measures to the American public — which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has projected will mean millions will lose their health coverage over the next decade — they have...
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