A little-known fact outside of the health nerds circle is that some providers actually get pretty high payment rates now for seeing Medicaid enrollees. Between the lines: What's been a brewing think-tank fight over Medicaid payments to hospitals and doctors could soon spill onto the main political stage should Republicans decide this is the most politically palatable way to cut the program's spending by hundreds of billions of dollars.

The House GOP Leadership is readiyng a budget resolution including spending cuts. A likely candidate is Medicaid work requirements.

As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in an effort to advance Donald Trump’s tax and border agenda, swing-district Republicans have been warning the president directly that it would cost him control of the House.

House Republicans blocked amendments that would’ve protected Medicaid and federal nutrition benefits from the deep cuts.

House Republicans introduced a proposal seeking to cut Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions of dollars. Healthcare leaders are slamming the budget plan, highlighting that it would result in millions of people losing coverage,