Defend Public HealthThis week's #Whopper is about RFK Jrs claims that Medicaid is not being cut. He's argued the cuts were not "real" but were cuts to fraudulent users of the system & Medicaid funding was rising, despite CBO saying cuts to Medicaid would total over $900B & would remove 7.5 million people from Medicaid
Whopper of the Week: Kennedy D...
Whopper of the Week: Kennedy D...
Whopper of the Week: Kennedy Denies the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Spending Cuts to Medicaid | Defend Public Health
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $900 billion over a decade. But in a series of congressional hearings last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that “there are no cuts to Medicaid” as a result of that 2025 law.