House Appropriations Committee
The Case Against Medicaid Expansion
Health Care
Personal responsibility added to Medicaid builds on previous welfare reform
In the run-up to President Bill Clinton’s transformation — not simply reform — of welfare, opponents predicted dire consequences such as people dying in the streets of starvation, low-income families driven deeper into poverty, low-wage individuals, especially single mothers, never finding jobs, healthy children turned sickly and driven into foster care. These warnings made great headlines, sold...
August 16, 2018