[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 7, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H1898]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                MEDICAID

  (Mr. BRECHEEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BRECHEEN. Mr. Speaker, Medicaid was created to provide health 
insurance for the poor, blind, disabled, pregnant, and elderly. Mr. 
Speaker, as you can see from this Paragon chart, Medicaid is no longer 
for the poor and now serves more people living above the poverty line 
than below it.
  Additionally, since 2012, the Medicaid population has grown 60 
percent, while the U.S. population has only grown about 6 percent 
according to the Foundation for Government Accountability.
  Following ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion, able-bodied adults now make 
up its largest subgroup according to FGA. Democrats claim these able-
bodied adults are working, but these claims are derived from self-
reported data relying on sample sizes as small as a few dozen.
  In reality, FGA has records for 21 million beneficiaries among 23 
States showing that 6 in 10 of these able-bodied beneficiaries do not 
work at all.
  As more able-bodied individuals are added to Medicaid, truly needy 
and disabled Americans are being displaced from priority services. 
700,000 disabled Americans are stuck on Medicaid wait lists while able-
bodied adults above the poverty line have access to taxpayer-funded 
healthcare.
  The goal of social programs should never be to gain able-bodied 
enrollees, but to decrease government dependency and help them escape 
poverty as shown during this chart's depiction of the Contract With 
America and the first Trump administration time period.

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