GOP Rep. Austin Scott gave away the game during an interview on Fox Business Network this Monday, while pretending their plan won’t end up causing people to lose coverage.
Here’s the exchange with Scott and Mornings with Maria guest host Cheryl Casone:
CASONE: So Congressman, the White House seems very confident they’re going to get this one big beautiful bill despite a lot of different comments coming from some of your colleagues in the House.
SCOTT: Yeah, well, let’s talk about what, Medicaid and FMAP is, and the intentional confusion here from the, from the left.
So, FMAP is the federal medical assistance percentage, and it ranges from 50 percent in the country to 76.9 percent.
Now when the, when the Dems expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, they made that percentage match 90/10, so the federal government is paying 90 percent of the Medicaid expansion.
And so what we have talked about is moving that 90 percent level of the expansion back towards the more traditional levels of 50 to approximately 80 percent, instead instead of the 90/10, 90 percent being federal, 10 being being state match.
That that’s what we’ve talked about and nobody would be kicked off of Medicaid as long as the Governors decided that they wanted to continue to fund the program.
