Overview

• The reconciliation package signed July 4 trims roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade and imposes 80-hour monthly work or community service requirements.
• The Congressional Budget Office estimates that these changes could strip coverage from more than 10 million people by 2035.
• On CNN NewsNight, Rep. Ritchie Torres disputed Scott Jennings’s assertion that 4.8 million enrollees “choose not to work,” saying that figure misrepresents the population.
• Torres argued that many Medicaid recipients serve as caregivers and cannot meet broad work mandates without risking their own coverage.
• He questioned why the bill establishes a $50 billion rural hospital fund if its stated goal is solely to target fraud, waste and abuse.