was alluding to here. first, offering states the option to block grant medicaid. that s one suggestion. second, incentives for states to include work requirements for medicaid. they had agreedpon that. what do you think about those two ideas? well, look. i think the first one is a really, really challenging idea. in fact, probably, in my opinion, and i think the opinion of many who have watched the medicare and medicaid programs over the decades, be one of the most significant disruptive activities that you could take. now, what it means is, they re taking a 25% cut to medicaid, and then they re saying in addition to that cut, we re going to put a cap on that cut. and remember, medicaid is a program that pays for half of the long-term care in this country. half of the births in this country. if you told governors, hey, we re going to cap what s cut and spent, the governors wouldn t be able to function. so i think that s why the governors are really pushing back. so a cap of any kind,
an amendment that would come out on monday. it would include stricter work requirements for medicaid, and he said he also wants to address the fact that these tax credits that are being discussed would go to people who are many much, much richer, essentially, than the people who receive subsidies now. he wants to address that problem and many others before he can say that they ll support this. you know what, if they were able to reach an agreement, it s not entirely clear that that would solve their problems. they would lose moderates then. let s shift to the unsubstab unsubstantiated wiretapping the gchq to put trump under surveillance during the campaign, and then during a bilateral press conference, the president tried to joke around about the wiretapping, and then he poirnted the finger at fox on claims of the gchq.
it s what the legislative process is all about. and we re going to do a couple of different things with a few recent amendments worth mentioning. and are owing in part to the engagement we had with congress. first off, we re going to stop any more states from expanding medicaid and adding a burden to future generations. we re going to give states the option of block grants of medicaid to the states, so states like florida cannin no vaft and design medicaid around the unique needs of the people in this community, and we re going to allow states like florida to include a work requirement for able-bodied adults insuring that medicaid s benefits are available to those who need them most. these are all common sense solutions, added to this legislation in a vigorous debate on capitol hill. and under the president s leadership we ll continue to listen intently for ways to make this even better.
legislation that use tax credits to increase affordability of health insurance. they need to look at their own policy portfolio before criticizing what is in the piece this piece of legislation that we ve been working on. there are moderate republicans that aren t very happy with some of the proposed changes in the plan that would cut medicaid expansion, for example, that happened under obama care. if that program is cut, as we just heard from christina, it could potentially leave millions of people relying on that medicaid coverage without any coverage. what do you say to those fellow republicans, governors, who are especially concerned about that? again, look, ronald reagan proposed this in the early 1970s. block grant medicaid to to the states. it was in the house republican budget in 1995. passed by the house and senate in 1995. this has been long-held republican orthodoxy that we return medicaid back to the
states and allow flexibility and that innovation that occurs state by state in order to better deliver for those that are i understand jendegent and . for those that are facing yearly spending, they don t want to change that system and reduce that increase. wolf, there is no cut to medicaid. medicaid will spend more next year and the following year and for the next decade, two decades. what we re talking about is trying to control the increase and give states full control over this population. one of the complaints out of our plan is that we are generous to those that are disabled and the most sickly in the medicaid population. i think there s just a natural discussion we have to have about our social safety net and making sure we deliver to those that are truly in the most need and our plan does that in the house.