Millions on Medicaid May Soon Lose Coverage as Pandemic Protections End
New York TimesMAR 28 2023
The pandemic “emergency” went on for too long and enabled the government to concentrate an unjustified amount of control as well as hoard taxpayer dollars. There was never a rational reason for the decision to extend government subsidies of healthcare for three years. It’s right that power has been returned to the states to determine, and now to redetermine, who will receive taxpayer-funded care.
Republicans claim they’re being fiscally responsible by kicking millions of Americans off their Medicaid roles, but they’re just being inhumane to score political points. Many people, including children, are relying on Medicaid programs that they are now inexplicably being excluded from, but the GOP doesn’t seem to care as long as it's scoring well in the polls.