24-06-2025
- Health
- Wall Street Journal
About Those Medicaid ‘Cuts'
Melinda Lemos-Jackson worries about the 'strain of deep Medicaid cuts' for families like her own (Letters, June 16). Yet changes to the program for the able-bodied shouldn't be viewed as 'cuts'—they amount to a restoration of the moral principle that we should be helping those who need it and that those who don't should be contributing to that assistance.
Resources for those with special needs, for instance, are suboptimal because of the bad incentives in ObamaCare's expansion: The feds provide states with more generous reimbursements for able-bodied, childless adults than for the disabled. That states took the bait is a shame, as resources are always limited. As Congress tries to right the ship, it's working for people exactly like Ms. Lemos-Jackson's family—the originally intended 'face of Medicaid.'
