The Attack on Medicaid: Live Q&A tomorrow, May 20, 10:30am ET with Wendell Potter.
Join us live on Instagram.
The United States health insurance landscape is shifting quickly. In the months since the Trump administration took office, experts have raised serious concerns about the future of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Those warnings escalated last week when House Republicans released its budget proposal calling for an estimated $715 billion in cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs over 10 years. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is poised to rule on a case that challenges the ACA’s mandate for insurers to cover certain preventive services free of charge.
This uncertainty in the public sector comes as the healthcare industry is still reeling from the December shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, an event that shined a spotlight on the overwhelmingly negative public sentiment toward private health insurers.
Join us for an Instagram Live with Wendell Potter, a former insurance executive turned whistleblower, as we break down what’s happening, what’s at stake, and what comes next.
How to join:
Open Instagram at 10:30am ET tomorrow, May 20.
Find/follow the MedPage Today account, and join us!
That’s it! (Yes, a recording will be posted later, for those unable to attend!)
What are your questions? Ask in the Comments section now and I’ll get to as many as I can.
I have read that the Medicaid cuts wouldn't actually begin until 2029 - after the 2028 (and of course 2026) elections; the idea being that people would not begin to feel the pain in time to affect the elections. Perhaps worth addressing how that might affect what we do now.