Lauren Fox

1 week ago | local3news.com | Annette Choi |Lauren Fox

Most US adults say they don’t want to see decreases in Medicaid spending, according to a recent KFF poll. It’s not clear yet what changes, if any, would be made to the programs. Those decisions will be made in meetings on Capitol Hill, but Republican lawmakers voted to pass a budget blueprint in April that gave the House Energy and Commerce Committee instructions to shave $880 billion in funding from programs in the committee’s jurisdiction. Medicaid is one of those programs.