The Health 202: Many don’t buy Trump administration’s anti-poverty Medicaid argument
“Most Americans — and even most Republicans — don’t buy the Trump administration’s argument that its primary aim in allowing states to add Medicaid work requirements is to pull more people out of poverty. Instead, more people believe the GOP-led administration is mainly motivated by a different goal — to cut Medicaid spending by reducing enrollment in the health program for low-income Americans, according to a poll released this morning by the Kaiser Family Foundation.”