A top House Republican on healthcare said he’s opposed to Medicaid cuts, although he believes the program has “a lot of inefficiencies” and could be optimized.
Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL), chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, spoke with Politico at its Health Care Summit on Wednesday.
“I’m not for cuts in Medicaid,” Buchanan said before adding, “There are a lot of inefficiencies. We’ve got to find a way to … do things better for less.”
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Buchanan is a senior House member who entered Congress in 2007. He reiterated after the summit that “Medicare and Medicaid cuts are off the table.”
“Instead, we’re focused on rooting out waste, fraud and abuse—because every dollar lost to inefficiency is a dollar not spent helping a single mom,
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