The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the Budget Reconciliation Bill, a piece of legislation that would do immense harm to the intended beneficiaries of Medicaid. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, 75% of the bill’s Medicaid cuts would harm beneficiaries. Beneficiaries will shoulder billions in savings through lost benefits, increasing from roughly 900,000 enrollees sustaining such loss in 2010 to an estimated 1.6 million in 2015.
“Most of the reductions [in benefits under this legislation] would be for services such as dental, vision, [and] mental health.”
Billions in savings will be achieved by reducing the number of Americans covered by Medicaid and increasing the barriers to coverage.
60% of those losing coverage will be children.
E.J. Dionne has an excellent editorial in the Washington Post called “Where’s the Budget Outrage?” that is highly reccommended.
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