Paul Krugman provides a good overview of Medicaid and its success in providing quality health care to millions of Americans. He rightly points out that, should Romney become president, huge cuts will almost certainly be made to the program. And then there’s his threat to undo the Affordable Care Act, effectively taking away access to Medicaid for countless low-income individuals and families. Medicaid, more than any other entitlement program, is politically vulnerable should Obama lose the election. Republicans have exhibited deep hostility to the program in recent years as their ideology careens ever rightward and Medicaid has few potent allies.
Don’t give any credence to Republican claims to “reform” Medicaid and “give more power to the states”. Such high-minded language merely distracts from their true intent: to hollow out one of the nation’s most effective public health care programs.
