Republicans, health experts push back on Democrats' Medicaid ‘scare tactics’

Even before the conflict over Medicaid subsidies that resulted in a month-and-a-half-long government shutdown, Democrats were already attacking Republicans over their reforms to the federal health insurance program, which has expanded over many years.Democrats say the GOP's cuts were put in place to give tax breaks to the wealthy, and serve to raise people's premiums and kick them off their coverage. But Republicans, free-market health policy experts and a disability advocate argue these are "scare tactics" used to deceive the public about what Republicans are really trying to do to Medicaid.A