Larry Levitt:
That’s right. This would be the biggest cut to Medicaid, in fact, the biggest cut to health care in history.
And that number that the Congressional Budget Office has put out, that 11.8 million more people would be uninsured, really tells the story here. I mean, it’s low-income kids. It’s adults who are working, but don’t have health insurance through their jobs. It’s people with disabilities. It’s seniors who need help paying their Medicare premiums or who are in nursing homes. Medicare does not cover nursing home or long-term care, so it’s really Medicaid that ends up picking up the slack there.
I mean, this would roll back many of the gains that the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare has succeeded in reducing the number of people with health insurance. And many more people would find themselves uninsured and without access to health care.
Laura Barron – Lopez: President Trump and Republicans have repeatedly claimed that part of this is about kicking undocumented migrants off of Medicaid. Today, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that that would total some 1.4 million undocumented people.
What’s the reality here? And are undocumented immigrants eligible for Medicaid?
