Biden’s health care wins are being undone — and at the worst possible time

Leftists everywhere are wringing their hands over the "poor losing their healthcare," and Politico here quotes quite a number of them.

This is nonsense, of course. Medicaid is merely being returned to 130% of the federal poverty level, which is the Obamacare standard, instead of the COVID-era policy of no standard at all. The net effect is to funnel welfare funds to the more-needy, rather than those who are less so.

All this, as directed by last year's Democrat-controlled Congress, and signed off by President Biden.

It's not until the final paragraphs that we see the real reason for all the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Biden’s health care wins are being undone — and at the worst possible time

Millions are being pushed off the Medicaid rolls, undoing the biggest health care coverage expansion since Obamacare.

By ADAM CANCRYN and MEGAN MESSERLY  08/09/2023 04:30 AM EDT

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Jamila Michener, co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity who has studied Medicaid’s impact on elections, warned that losing Medicaid coverage correlated in the past with suppressed voter turnout. And while most of the states experiencing the highest rates of coverage loss so far are states Biden lost decidedly in 2020, swing states like Georgia and Nevada have among the top 10 highest disenrollment rates.

“In places where the unwinding has been associated with disenrollment and with the negative experiences with Medicaid, we are more likely to see that translated into negative electoral consequences,” Michener said. “When unwinding unfolds in ways that alienate Medicaid beneficiaries from politics or the electoral system, that has implications for political inequality, both in terms of class and in terms of race.”

Read the article to get the full benefit of leftist angst. (And hypocrisy!)

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/09/bidens-health-care-wins-undone-medicaid-00110389