GOP Bill Would Slash Medicaid Over Next 20 Years, CBO Finds
- Analysis of health bill shows two-decade reduction in spending
- Trump claimed this week that Medicaid spending would rise
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A long-term analysis of Senate Republicans’ health-care legislation found that the bill would slash spending on Medicaid by about 35 percent over the next 20 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The CBO estimated that the bill, called the Better Care Reconciliation Act, will reduce Medicaid spending to 1.6 percent of gross domestic product in 2036, from 2 percent of GDP this year. The nonpartisan agency attributed the cuts to the bill’s cap on per-person spending and the phase-out of funding for Obamacare’s expansion of the program.