Medicaid

“I would say it's a red line for me to touch Social Security or Medicaid or Medicare.”

“We've said we're not going to touch Social Security. Medicare and Medicaid. That was the president who said that.”

“We found in the benefit programs that every benefit program that was being accessed by these people, you know, 1.3 million of them are on Medicaid right now, today.”

“And so if you do that with Medicaid, what you'll probably get is number one, a lot of these pharmaceuticals just won't be used by Medicaid. Pharma won't sell it to them. Instead, you'll have to go into the private sector, which means it's going to be more expe…”

“This bill cuts eight hundred eighty billion for Medicaid over a decade, which is something that already is politically tough and controversial and imposes work requirements. For able-bodied adults.”

“Medicaid claims for autism in Minnesota spiked 130 X in five years.”

“One of the drug companies, Merck, said they're gonna just give us their number one drug in the world. They're gonna give it to Medicaid and Medicare for zero.”

“So, the result is Ozempic and Munjara are on Medicaid and Medicare. For a hundred and 49 dollars instead of not on it.”

“No one has ever looked at, if you're getting Medicaid and Medicare, how much money do you make? No one's ever compared the two.”

“The chance of a Medicaid patient who doesn't pay for their health care because they don't have the means to do it, the chance of them canceling their doctor's appointment is twice that of a Medicare patient.”

“All you need to penetrate Medicare and Medicaid is a beneficiary number. They can buy those, and you're off to the races.”

“It is by federal law, mandated that if you give a patient a welfare program, SNAP, Medicaid, you must also give them the ability to sign up to vote.”

“We're gonna actively and aggressively stop paying Medicaid if we can prove that states are not obliging their fiduciary responsibility to the American people.”

“I've got 500,000 Pennsylvanians who are going to lose their health care. I've got a 120,000 who have already lost their health care. About another 320,000 or so were likely to lose Medicaid next year. I've got 26 rural hospitals that are likely to shutter”

“So the rule is there is no Medicaid reimbursement to the states for any mental health care provided In a facility with more than 16 beds.”

“We know That there's billions of dollars in fraud in California for things like Medicaid fraud, unemployment fraud, EBT fraud, hospice fraud, fraud related to the homeless industrial complex, and on and on. That's all been proven, ok?”