When the ACA expanded Medicaid coverage, Conway said, that "opened it up" to healthy people who could, theoretically, work.
As Jonathan Cohn points out in the Huffington Post, however, Conway's reasoning is faulty: "the majority of able-bodied adults on Medicaid already have jobs". Take away their Medicaid and they won't be covered.
Kellyanne Conway defended herself against accusations that she was caught in a lie on Sunday when the presidential adviser said there were "no cuts to Medicaid" in the new Republican health care bill.
Trumpcare would actually put a cap on Medicaid spending, so if there was no more money available for children, pregnant women or the elderly, they wouldn't get care either. We're not talking about the elderly who benefit, the children, the pregnant women, the disabled.
"If you're able-bodied and you would like to go find employment and have employer-sponsored benefits, then you should be able to do that", Conway said.
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If only it were that easy.
The problem is that many work in low-paying, temporary, or part-time jobs that don't offer coverage. Like when she tried to deny Stephanopoulos' description of the Medicaid cuts as "cuts". In fact, this is slowing the growth of Medicaid and allowing governors more flexibility in their states to be able to give the dollars out as they - because they are closest to the people in need.
Conway went on to debunk another Stephanopoulos falsehood claiming that Medicaid cuts make it impossible to expand treatment for opioid addiction.
That claim, which the Trump administration and its allies in GOP leadership have made repeatedly in recent weeks, has drawn rebukes from Republican senators ― including Susan Collins of ME, who appeared on "This Week" shortly after Conway.
"I'm not going to comment on his conversations with his intelligence community", Conway said. Conway noted that Trump recently signed into law a bill that provides $213 million in opioid funding with another $811 million to come in next years budget. But when the CBO analyzed the House version of the legislation, which envisions slightly less severe cuts over time, it predicted the bill would mean 14 million fewer Americans would have coverage under Medicaid by 2026.
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