One Chart To Kill The Medicaid Lies For Good... I & I Editorial Board

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One Chart To Kill The Medicaid Lies For Good
I & I Editorial Board
July 31, 2025

Can anyone guess what is wrong with the following headline? “Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump’s gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural U.S.”

That appeared in The Guardian newspaper over the weekend.

How about this one from NPR: “GOP governors stay silent amid plans to slash Medicaid spending in their states.”

Or this one from AP: “Rural hospitals brace for financial hits or even closure under Republicans’ $1 trillion Medicaid cut“

Or this one from NBC News: “Another report suggests Medicaid cuts could lead to thousands of deaths.”

Or countless others like these published in the wake of President Donald Trump’s signing the One Big Beautiful Bill?

What’s wrong with them all? They are all based on one big, fat lie. There are no cuts to Medicaid.



Look closely at the chart above.

It shows Medicaid spending levels starting in 2010. What do you see? Spending was increasing at a fairly steady rate until 2021, when Joe Biden massively expanded the program. Not only did spending jump upward, but Biden set Medicaid on a permanently higher spending track.

Under the OBBB, spending continues to climb, just more slowly.

But the lie about “slashing” and “gutting” is even bigger than that.

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[Smokin Joe]

It as long been a leftist tactic to brand a reduction in the rate of increase as a cut.

They have done this in the past, where a $100 billion increase, reduced to a 50 billion dollar increase was a 50% cut in the program funding, even though $50 billion more was going to be spent.