Republicans are in a fix. Medicaid costs have exploded over the past six years, and the system is rife with waste, fraud, and abuse. Democrats don’t want to do anything meaningful about it, but large majorities of voters support most of the Republicans’ proposed tweaks. Well … all except one, which pits old-guard Republicans against the populist insurgents.
But a solution exists.
As a body, the Senate is reliably more than a decade behind the rest of the country, politically. But political realities still do have an impact.
Medicaid — federally subsidized health care for the poor — is out of control. Since 2019 (or during COVID and President Joe Biden’s time in office), the federal expense has ballooned 56.5%. There are currently 72 million people on the
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