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10 Reasons Why Everyday Americans Need Medicaid And How The Republican Budget Undermines Them | From CAP’s Scott Lilly, Melissa Boteach, Katie Wright: 1) States would have to spend $266 billion more on Medicaid from state-generated revenues, 2) Block-granting Medicaid would threaten the safety net for middle-class families, 3) Medicaid is a well-baby program but not really a poverty program, 4) The largest share of Medicaid spending benefits the disabled, 5) If half of the savings to close the funding gap facing the states were taken out of Medicaid, that would add 20 million to the nation’s uninsured, 6) Seventy percent of nursing home residents eventually become Medicaid beneficiaries, 7) Block-granting Medicaid could impoverish the wives or husbands of many nursing home residents, 8) Block-granting Medicaid could affect the economic security of millions of middle-class families with parents needing nursing home care, 9) Block-granting Medicaid could have the same effect on families with disabled spouses or children, and 10) It is difficult to cut Medicaid without cutting eligibility.