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Members debate Republican budget directive to find $880 billion in cuts and potential effects on Medicaid
Summary
During a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on PBMs, members debated a Republican budget directive asking committees to identify $880 billion in savings and warned that the cuts could fall on Medicaid and related services.
Lawmakers used the PBM hearing to cross-examine a parallel and politically fraught question: a House Republican budget resolution that directs committees, including Energy and Commerce, to find at least $880 billion in savings.
Why it matters: Committee Democrats argued that the size and timing of that target make Medicaid the only realistic funding source and that cuts of that magnitude would force states to reduce coverage, benefits or provider payments—measures Democrats said would harm children, pregnant people, seniors and rural hospitals.
Representative Frank Pallone, ranking member of the full Energy and Commerce Committee, warned that the proposed cuts were large enough to “rip health care coverage out of the hands of everyday Americans”…
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