House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La. ) scoured on Sunday to clarify common concerns about President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful expenses,” which critics fear may cause Medicaid to be cut. Johnson noted that the greatest problem is the Medicaid membership of over 1.4 million illegal immigrants.
Johnson retaliated on CNN’s State of the Union by criticizing what he thought was common misconceptions about the proposed legislation. He claimed,” We are never cutting Medicaid in this package.” Johnson argued that the real problem is with people who are not lawfully entitled to receive Medicaid tools misusing them.
Johnson claimed that many of the illegal people receiving Medicaid have been enrolled inadvertently, thereby stifling the valuable resources available to the program’s intended beneficiaries, including pregnant women, the old, the crippled, and low-income people. He characterized these attempts to strengthen Medicaid registration as an effort to maintain benefits for those who are most in need.
“You’re talking about 4.8 million able-bodied personnel, such as young people, who are receiving Medicaid and are not employed. They are making a decision to not function when they can. That is referred to as scams. They are defrauding the system, according to Johnson. When those kinds of crimes are eliminated, people who most need them keep the sources that are sorely needed. That is what we are doing.
According to Townhall, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services superintendent, who revealed that citizens are responsible for the cost of billions in false Medicaid payments, lately raised concerns.
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Oz also cited structural issues with Medicaid, such as the absence of a federal work requirement, which is prevalent in the SNAP ( food stamps ) program. He argued that enforcing a condition would benefit both the recipients and the country as a whole, not to mention that the present system could lead to what he termed a “moral hazard.”
Oz also noted that some states, depending on how much the program has been expanded, receive higher federal reimbursement rates, reaching 90 %, while others only receive 50 % to 60 %. He suggested that this gap prevents states from completely coordinating with national oversight efforts.
People spend their entire lives working, getting Medicare, getting the programme, retiring believing they have a wonderful system, and the doctor telling them,” Talk, you guys don’t give as well as the able-bodied people on Medicaid who haven’t been able to get a job. But in a way, we value them more, and that’s what ultimately happens that destroys the system,” Oz said.
