Medicaid was signed into law 60 years ago. Trump's big bill is chiseling it back

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (AP) — On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health care safety net for millions of low-income Americans in what would become one of the crowning achievements of his domestic legacy.

A year earlier, he did the same for food stamps, drawing on President John F. Kennedy’s first executive order for the development of “a positive food and nutrition program for all Americans.”

This summer, with the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump began to chisel them back.

The Republican Party’s big tax and spending bill delivered not just $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for Americans but some of the most substantial changes to the landmark safety net programs in their history. The trade-off will cut more than $1 trillion over a decade from federal health care and food assistance, largely by imposing work requirements on those receiving aid and by shifting certain federal costs onto the states.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-big-bill-medicaid-cuts-snap-ed0d2c7c20b43c54265dbc9cb215b647

[Johnny2X2X]

1. The public doesn't know

The problem is the public doesn't know Medicaid until they need it and most of us need it at some point.

People think, oh, Medicaid, that's just for poor people. Well when we get old and need help paying for a nursing home, Medicaid is who picks up the tab we cannot afford. I don't think enough people get this right now.