Medicaid is the government program that is supposed to help the poor afford health care. Its cost to taxpayers has skyrocketed in the last few years, consuming more than 12% of federal tax revenue collected by 2025.

Projected Medicaid spending from 2025-34 before the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was expected to total $8.2 trillion, $2.7 trillion more than if Medicaid had grown proportionally to the population and inflation.

Before the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), Medicaid was a state-by-state program and often was available only to a subset of people below the poverty line, especially mothers and children, but generally not working-age, work-capable adults. The ACA allowed states to expand Medicaid to cover every person below the poverty line and some above it, regardless of circumstan

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