You’ve heard it over and over: the GOP budget plan guts Medicaid and will lead to the closing of rural hospitals while pregnant women lose prenatal care.

Sounds heartless but none of this fearmongering is true. The people who will be kicked off the rolls are those who are scamming the system and INELIGIBLE. The plan is like kicking a passenger who doesn’t have a ticket off a plane.  And Medicaid spending rises every year under the plan, just less than the Left would prefer.  More money for fewer people is the opposite of a benefit cut.

It is hard to know exactly how many total ineligible enrollees there are now because Biden ended eligibility audits.  But one good way to approximate it is to compare the number of people who qualify based on income in the Census data, with the number of Medicaid enrollees.

Bill Hammond of the Empire Center did that for New York and found that the likely number of ineligible enrollees is in the millions just in that one state:

Nearly 40% of the total population of New York and California is now on Medicaid, which was supposed to be a safety net program for the most needy.  But now, Medicaid is becoming a back door government takeover of the health care system.