Fact Check: Dem claims that Senate bill guts Medicaid ignore billions in new funding
By Brooke Singman
Published June 27, 2017
FoxNews.com
File under, ‘only in Washington.’
While Democrats are howling that the Senate’s health care bill would gut Medicaid, a closer look at the numbers shows the legislation actually would increase spending to the safety-net program—by tens of billions of dollars.
According to the latest ‘score’ from the Congressional Budget Office, Medicaid spending would rise from $393 billion in 2017 to $464 billion in 2026—that’s a $71 billion, or 18 percent, increase.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/27/fact-check-dem-claims-that-senate-bill-guts-medicaid-ignore-billions-in-new-funding.html
