Medicaid Cuts: What’s on the Table and What It Means for You

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  Hey, what's news, listeners?

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  It's Sunday, March 23rd.

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  I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and this is what's NEWS Sunday,

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  the show where we tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news by reaching out to our colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world.

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  The Affordable Care act was signed into law 15 years ago today,

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  a bill that kicked off a sweeping overhaul of U.S. health care,

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  expanding coverage to more than 30 million Americans via its Medicaid expansion.

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  And after surviving three legal challeng despite challenges at the Supreme Court,

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  it's become firmly entrenched in the American healthcare system.

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  But with big Medicaid cuts being debated on Capitol Hill,

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  could the US Healthcare landscape be in for a shock?

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  Let's get right to it.

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  The federal government spends about $600 billion annually on Medicaid.

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  States help fund and manage the program,

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  which provides health insurance for roughly 72 million people,

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  or about 1 in 5Americans, including children and people with low incomes or disabilities.

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  And as you might have heard,

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  some big changes to the program have been tossed around on Capitol Hill lately as congressional Republicans work to deliver a budget and tax cut bill in the coming months.

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  We have got two excellent guests with us today to analyze the effects that those moves could have.

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  But first, I want to play some comments from Journal reporter Liz Eslie White,

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