Joel White spoke to Politico about changes to Medicaid in the Republicans’ reconciliation bill.
Joel White, GOP health strategist and president and CEO of the consulting firm Horizon Government Affairs, said that the politics will ultimately redound to the GOP’s benefit despite Americans’ sympathy for children.
“I think it is easier to pull political heartstrings with children. SO it makes it easier. But this is still a policy overwhelmingly supported by voters,” he said in an email.
White pointed to California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent announcement that he wants to freeze new enrollments to the state’s Medicaid program from undocumented immigrants as evidence of the politics.