--- title: Trump Tweeted a Misleading Medicaid Chart. Here’s What’s Right description: President Trump tweets a misleading chart about the Senate health care bill's medicaid spending. authors: - name: Elizabeth O'Brien role: Deputy Editor url: https://money.com/author/elizabeth-obrien/ bio: Elizabeth O’Brien is Money's deputy editor. She has covered personal finance for more than 10 years, with a focus on retirement planning and health care. Subscribe to her weekly newsletter, Retire with Money. at_money_since: 2016 articles: 194 covers: - Economy and Politics - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Personal Finance - Pets - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/elizobrien former_staff: true published: '2017-06-29T19:00:16.000Z' modified: '2024-02-23T09:50:54.000Z' section: Economy and Politics tags: - Health Care - Medicaid word_count: 205 canonical: https://money.com/trump-tweeted-a-misleading-medicaid-chart-heres-whats-right/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![US-POLITICS-TRUMP-IMMIGRATION](https://img.money.com/2017/06/170629-president-donald-trump-tweets-medicaid-misleading.jpeg) *US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting to urge passage of bills to enforce federal laws on immigration in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 28, 2017.* President Donald Trump's tweets typically don't get into wonky policy, but he broke from that tradition on Wednesday in support of the Senate's health care bill, tweeting out a chart showing how Medicaid spending would rise over the years. The Better Care Reconciliation Act, as the Senate's bill is called, contains an estimated $772 billion in Medicaid cuts through 2026, as well as a change in the funding formula that will sharply decrease spending beyond that point. Critics fear these deep cuts will jeopardize care for the roughly 73 million Americans on Medicaid, which include low-income workers, adults with disabilities, special needs children, and elderly people who have exhausted their assets and need long-term care. Medicaid spending will indeed increase over time under the Better Care Reconciliation Act, but that's because more people will be on the program — for starters, Medicaid funds certain long-term care, and the number of elderly Americans is projected to more than double by 2060, to more than 98 million — and also because the cost of health care continues to mount. It's not because the legislation increases Medicaid funding; it does just the opposite. 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