{"id":1042,"date":"2025-05-08T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2025-05-09T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:22:31","slug":"kff-health-news-what-the-health-cutting-medicaid-is-hard-even-for-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.walkwithremar.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/kff-health-news-what-the-health-cutting-medicaid-is-hard-even-for-the-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: Cutting Medicaid Is Hard \u2014 Even for the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\tJulie Rovner
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\t\t\tJulie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News\u2019 weekly health policy news podcast, \u201cWhat the Health?\u201d A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book \u201cHealth Care Politics and Policy A to Z,\u201d now in its third edition.\t\t<\/p>\n

After narrowly passing a budget resolution this spring foreshadowing major Medicaid cuts, Republicans in Congress are having trouble agreeing on specific ways to save billions of dollars from a pool of funding that pays for the program without cutting benefits on which millions of Americans rely. Moderates resist changes they say would harm their constituents, while fiscal conservatives say they won\u2019t vote for smaller cuts than those called for in the budget resolution. The fate of President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cone big, beautiful bill\u201d containing renewed tax cuts and boosted immigration enforcement could hang on a Medicaid deal.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Trump administration surprised those on both sides of the abortion debate by agreeing with the Biden administration that a Texas case challenging the FDA\u2019s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone should be dropped. It\u2019s clear the administration\u2019s request is purely technical, though, and has no bearing on whether officials plan to protect the abortion pill\u2019s availability.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Maya Goldman of Axios, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call.<\/p>\n

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\tMaya Goldman
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\tSandhya Raman
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Among the takeaways from this week\u2019s episode:<\/p>\n