875 - Tradeoffs: Why Many Republicans Think Shrinking Medicaid Will Make It Better

About this episode:

As a follow up to our recent episode titled The Potential Impacts of Cuts To Medicaid, we're partnering with our friends at the Tradeoffs podcast. Guest hosts Dan Gorenstein and Ryan Levi, longtime health reporters, take a deeper look at why many Republicans believe a smaller Medicaid program would be a better Medicaid, what proposed cuts might look like, and the challenges Republicans may face in trying to get cuts passed in Congress.

Guests:

Dan Gorenstein is the executive producer and host of the Tradeoffs Podcast and an adjunct senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ryan Levi is a reporter and producer for the Tradeoffs Podcast.

Show links and related content:

• Why Many Republicans Think Shrinking Medicaid Will Make It Better—Tradeoffs

• The Potential Impacts of Cuts To Medicaid—Public Health On Call (March 2025)

• The Oregon Experiment—Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes—The New England Journal of Medicine (2013)

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