The decades-old entitlement program extends health coverage to low-income Americans, and Menendez noted that as an entitlement program, anyone who meets the criteria currently has the right to be covered.
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Yeah, we're basically a federal entitlement program for dying athletes.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a mandatory entitlement program.
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Conservatives have opposed refundable tax credits, calling them another entitlement program.
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It is great politics: a new entitlement program to help families.
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They applied, and because it's an entitlement program, they were enrolled.
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"I don't think we need a new entitlement program," he said.
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Republicans have long supported a massive overhaul of Medicare, the health entitlement program for seniors, one that they argue will make the entitlement program more sustainable — but also would have seniors spend significantly more out of pocket.
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SNAP is the closest thing to an entitlement program in the country.
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Conservatives say the refundable tax credits amount to just another entitlement program.
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It is not a welfare program, it is a federal entitlement program.
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It's a rare call for a new entitlement program from the administration.
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Unlike Medicaid, it's not an entitlement program, so it's subject to budget appropriations.
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The ACA didn't change the structure of Medicaid as an open-ended entitlement program.
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Conservatives have taken issue with the refundable tax credit, saying it's another entitlement program.
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It is a huge entitlement program for the benefit of the most entitled residents.
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We are not doing veterans a favor by warehousing them in a lifelong entitlement program.
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"Rolling out a massive new entitlement program is not the right approach to go," Sen.
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He's particularly critical of the age-based subsidies, which he views as another entitlement program.
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In that way, they would become a sort of entitlement program just for sick people.
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"What is conservative about a new entitlement program and a new tax increase?" he asked CNN.
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Spending on interest and entitlement program are already effectively crowding out investment in other national priorities.
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And just yesterday, he was referring to health care tax credits as a "massive new entitlement program."
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His objections include the use of a refundable tax credit, which he calls a new entitlement program.
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According to the Alaska Dispatch News, a quarter of Alaskans receive health coverage via the entitlement program.
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A block grant would transform Medicaid from an open-ended entitlement program into one with capped benefits.
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Can they repeal an entitlement program partially upheld by the Supreme Court and make it permanently go away?
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It will be one of the few times in history that a federal entitlement program has been repealed.
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But Medicaid may not be the only entitlement program on the chopping block in the House budget resolution.
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And again, unlike Obamacare, it's an entitlement program that requires no payments or financial commitments from its recipients.
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Medicaid, the federal entitlement program that covers low-income Americans, is perennially the largest item in state budgets.
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"I'm not for any Republican plan that involves any kind of new entitlement program," Paul told me Tuesday.
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He voiced his opposition to the tax credits, which he called an "entitlement program," in an interview with CNN.
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They warning the bill creates a new entitlement program by providing refundable tax credits to help people buy insurance.
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But some of the most conservative members of the party say that would amount to a new entitlement program.
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Its program, known as the private option, was intended to appeal to Republicans who opposed expanding a federal entitlement program.
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One of their biggest concerns is the inclusion of refundable tax credits, which they're branding as a new entitlement program.
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And beyond that, Ryan and Trump hold differing views on issues ranging from trade to immigration to entitlement program spending.
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The Medicaid expansion made the ACA much more of a new entitlement program and less of a new insurance law.
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It will end Medicaid as an open-ended entitlement program and convert it into a system of fixed payments to states.
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"Putting $70 billion, $80 billion, in a stabilization fund is an entitlement program for insurance companies, and I'm not for that."
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"Coming in as a Republican president with a new federal entitlement program?" asked Representative Dave Brat, a conservative Republican from Virginia.
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As Monday's Congressional Budget Office analysis confirms, the bill includes what you might call a new upper-middle-class entitlement program.
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There is no historical example of a political party riding to electoral victory on the back of a poorly run entitlement program.
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Kentucky Senator and former presidential candidate Rand Paul recently renewed his criticism of the GOP bill as being just another entitlement program.
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Under the plan, Medicaid, an open-ended entitlement program designed to cover all health care needs, would be put on a budget.
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A key difference is that the ACA is an entitlement program, where everyone who fits the program criteria get the money they need.
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The idea is modeled on the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, which dismantled the federal entitlement program with block grants to the states.
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First, once they start, they're very hard to eliminate, even when they become obsolete or a de facto entitlement program for the elite.
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Major changes would be made to Medicaid The bill makes major cuts to Medicaid, which Republicans are touting as reforming the entitlement program.
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Before taking office, his aides reportedly had the audacity to ask the State Department if Bush's PEPFAR was really an international entitlement program.
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The House and Senate bills would convert Medicaid from an open-ended entitlement program to a system of per-capita payments for beneficiaries.
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Democrats also noted that Mr. Trump did not campaign on the idea of tinkering with Medicare or its companion entitlement program, Social Security.
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The Massachusetts Democrat's plan would make major changes to the popular entitlement program, which currently provides monthly payments to roughly 1503 million Americans.
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On the other, conservative legislators argue the exact opposite: that the tax credits are much too generous and amount to just another entitlement program.
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"The tax credits included in Ryan's plan will create an entirely new entitlement program," Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Breitbart News.
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Price has also backed moves to reform and cut Medicare benefits, an entitlement program for the nation's elderly that Trump has pledged to protect.
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The other major roadblock for conservatives remains the use of advanceable, refundable tax credits, which many call nothing more than a new entitlement program.
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It's an entitlement program, which means that if a student applies and meets the income threshold for a Pell Grant, they'll get it automatically.
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Paul and members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus have taken issue with the plan's tax credits, characterizing them as a "new entitlement" program.
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The tax credits have been another headache for Republican leaders, as some on the right have described them as a massive new entitlement program.
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Some conservatives believe the plan should provide fewer people with coverage and scale back what they consider to be a big government entitlement program.
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But the agency—which predates both Medicare and Medicaid—is not an entitlement program, meaning its funding levels fluctuate with Congressional appropriations and politics.
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It's a mandatory entitlement program that continues on autopilot for people who meet income and eligibility requirements, but the funds are appropriated by Congress.
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Under this new "block grant" approach, states could trade away an entitlement program that expands and contracts depending on how many people need it.
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This generally benefits Republican led states that opposed ObamaCare and the expansion of a federal entitlement program such as Wisconsin, Utah, Kansas and Mississippi.
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As the federal government's largest entitlement program, Social Security faces the possibility of having to reduce payouts for millions of new retired workers after 2037.
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But the Freedom Caucus' conservatives have remain unswayed, believing the replacement bill does not sufficiently bring down healthcare costs and creates an expensive entitlement program.
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Some programs do exist; Trade Adjustment Assistance, a 1960s entitlement program that has been expanded over the years, offers unemployment benefits and jobs training programs.
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Conservatives from the House Freedom Caucus complain that the measure doesn't amount to full repeal and argue that it replaces the law with another entitlement program.
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Paul argued that would give conservatives the freedom of mind to know they weren't voting for a new entitlement program even though the Obamacare subsidies remained.
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But they are butting heads with conservatives, who see this as their chance to reform a massive entitlement program they consider to be costly and ineffective.
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Congress is working on a historic task: attempting to roll back and reform a major entitlement program, something that hasn't been accomplished for over 2628 years.
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"We're going to take on welfare reform, which is another big entitlement program, where we're basically paying people -- able-bodied people -- not to work," Ryan said.
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Medicaid is an open-ended entitlement program, meaning that benefits are generally available to anyone who meets eligibility criteria established by the federal and state governments.
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Last year, the American Enterprise Institute, along with the Brookings Institution, published a report calling for an entirely new entitlement program with a new payroll tax.
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But Republicans are prepared to accuse single-payer Democrats of both advancing an unaffordable new entitlement program and trying to cripple existing government health insurance programs.
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He argues it doesn't do enough to unwind Obamacare and it funnels federal funding to insurance companies, creating what he has called a new Republican entitlement program.
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There is, of course, no bill yet, but Paul criticized the House bill for allocating money for tax credits, which he says sound like another entitlement program.
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"It's a new entitlement program," said Representative Mark Meadows of North Carolina, chairman of a 40-member bloc of Republican lawmakers known as the House Freedom Caucus.
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Lawmakers in the conservative House Freedom Caucus complain that the measure doesn't amount to full repeal and argue that it replaces the law with another entitlement program.
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In the case of the Palestinians, he argued that the funding had evolved into a decades-long entitlement program with no plan to make them self-reliant.
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Will low-income Trump voters who depend on Medicaid love that he proposes slashing Medicaid by $6900 billion after he promised NOT to touch the entitlement program?
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They have sharply criticized its proposed tax credits as an unacceptable new government entitlement program and have called for a quicker end to the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
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Conservatives argued the House's refundable tax credits were little more than a new entitlement program, a new name for the Obamacare subsidies Republicans had railed against for years.
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This entitlement program is a lifeline for disabled people, and they're worried their worst nightmare is about to manifest: A return to mass institutionalization for the disability community.
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Democrats and some conservative groups, like the American Enterprise Institute, are advancing proposals to create an entirely new entitlement program with a new payroll tax of its own.
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Trump team ultimatum: No more talks, time to vote Among other criticisms, Brooks said the bill would increase insurance premiums, and basically amounted to a GOP-owned entitlement program.
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Kansas must prioritize the care and service of vulnerable Kansans, addressing their health care needs in a sustainable way, not expanding a failing entitlement program to able-bodied adults.
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Cruz, who has called the credits a "new entitlement program" and helped form the Senate's healthcare working group, would not tell The Hill if he could support the changes.
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Price has proposed restructuring Medicare funding by converting traditional Medicare into more of a market-based system, a move he says will prevent the health entitlement program from going broke.
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The design of the cost-control board was legally questionable, but it represented an effort to cap the growth of America's largest entitlement program, and Republicans replaced it with nothing.
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The federal entitlement program was launched in the 1970s, and helps American workers who have either already lost their jobs, or may lose them, as a result of overseas trade.
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And it places a cap on Medicaid, while simultaneously slashing about $840 billion from the entitlement program over the next 10 years to pay for enormous tax cuts for the wealthy.
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In recent days, a slew of conservative lawmakers have come out against the draft legislation, arguing, in part, that the proposed refundable tax credits would amount to a new entitlement program.
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And as with the flagship entitlement program, it's up to regulators and legislators to step in — even when it may not be easy — in order to keep the system from collapsing.
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In fact, neither Ryan nor McConnell have ever said that they want to completely end SNAP, the entitlement program that in 22016 provided $260 billion in food assistance to low-income households.
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It would be far wiser to more efficiently use the programs we already have in place, and focus on keeping them financially solvent, rather than creating another entitlement program competing for resources.
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Among other issues, they have dismissed its subsidies as a new entitlement program, and have argued that the measure should eliminate all essential health benefits requirements placed on insurers to control premiums.
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" Paul has recently focused on a push to keep some of ObamaCare's subsidies in the GOP legislation, and warned on Tuesday that he isn't inclined to support "anything that's a new entitlement program.
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While moderate Republicans say people need help affording their premiums — and might even say the size of the credit in the leaked plan isn't big enough — conservatives are calling it another entitlement program.
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But Sanders brought receipts: He pointed to all the times the entitlement program was used as a bargaining chip for other legislation — and during times when budget-cutting and deficit reduction came up.
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The leaders of the conservative Republican Study Committee and House Freedom Caucus on Monday said they would oppose a draft GOP plan because it included tax credits, calling the idea a new entitlement program.
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The emerging Senate bill, like the one approved narrowly by the House in early May, would end Medicaid as an open-ended entitlement program and replace it with capped payments to states, Republicans said.
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Verma told nervous senators from Medicaid expansion states that the administration would be willing to give states flexibility to use Medicaid funds to subsidize the healthcare costs of people not enrolled in the entitlement program.
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When he was chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan proposed limiting spending on Medicare by changing it from an entitlement program into a voucher program, ending federal guaranteed coverage of medical care for seniors.
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In fact, W created the first new major entitlement program since Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society program — coverage of prescription drugs — and added it to a Medicare program that was already in bad financial shape.
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Across the country, hospitals are shifting to a more conservative stance as they await sweeping changes to the nation's healthcare law that for the first time in U.S. history would reverse a government healthcare entitlement program.
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Paul has made clear to colleagues that he will not support legislation that creates a new GOP-sponsored entitlement program in the form of refundable tax credits to help low-income people buy private insurance plans.
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They see an economic and family benefit to paid federal leave, but they don't like the idea of a creating a new "entitlement" program and haven't been willing to create a new revenue source to support it.
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Like Conyers's bill, it will suggest allowing every American to enroll in Medicare — a massive new entitlement program likely to be paid for by a new payroll tax, mirroring a similar push Sanders made during the presidential primary.
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You see it in reports on the health of Medicare and deficits, creating the near-certainty that candidates will have to face an entitlement program running out of cash just as the Trump deficits are hitting $1 trillion.
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If the government makes payments to people with little or no tax liability, they say, that would amount to a new entitlement program, replacing one kind of government largess from President Barack Obama with another from Mr. Trump.
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So whatever differences we may have over particular policies and programs, I heartily endorse Ivanka Trump's argument that the real test of an entitlement program is whether it is an investment in the security and prosperity of all Americans.
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Watching efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act fall apart was more than just a setback for conservatives who disliked the law, which expanded the government's role in health care and created an expensive new entitlement program.
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Fiscal hawks like Ryan undoubtedly assume that a federal paid leave policy would grow government, either by creating a new entitlement program that would require new tax revenue or requiring employers to provide workers with paid family leave benefits.
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Conservatives argue that even the 10 percent they would have to pay for expanding Medicaid is too costly, especially since they view Medicaid as a dysfunctional entitlement program and Obamacare, the measure funding the expansion, as a broken law.
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Conservatives say have argued that refundable tax credits are little more than a new entitlement program and some Republicans from Medicaid-expansion states have said they would not support plans that could kick millions of people off the Medicaid rolls.
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Republicans have blocked or watered down such proposals in Congress, arguing that the Feds can't afford yet another new entitlement program and should resist the temptation to regulate employer-employee relations, traditionally the province of states and of companies themselves.
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The AHCA fundamentally changes Medicaid from an open-ended entitlement program, where the federal government is on the hook for a theoretically limitless amount of spending, to one where it spends a fixed and predictable amount of money per year.
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The legislation is already running into a buzzsaw of opposition from conservatives, who say the plan does not live up to the GOP's promise of fully repealing the law and creates a new entitlement program that the country can't afford.
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" He added, "If we hadn't stopped it, I think you'd have an entitlement program now of enormous size with these federal day care centers, and they would be growing and growing and growing once you got it on the books.
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Republicans don't like to talk about it, but CHIP advocates say that the party has become increasingly uncomfortable with such an overwhelmingly popular entitlement program that actually serves people with higher incomes than the people on Medicaid or food stamps.
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The idea of "resources and flexibility" seems to hint at the idea of a block grant, where the federal government would give states a lump sum of money and let them run the entitlement program as they see fit, with less federal oversight.
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The House Ways and Means Committee will take a fresh look at an old entitlement program in coming weeks when it debates whether to extend the decade-old federal subsidies for electric vehicles as part of a so-called green energy tax package.
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Medicaid expansion has split the Republican Party between those who see it as a crucial safety net for low-income Americans and those who see it as another expansion of a costly entitlement program that states don't have the budget to fund.
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In 1971, Congress considered the Comprehensive Child Development Act, a last piece of Great Society legislation, an entitlement program providing for universal preschool education (referred to, during congressional debate, as "developmental day care"), with tuition scaled to a family's ability to pay.
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Aside from the centrist Republicans who have cold feet following release of the CBO score, conservatives are hammering the legislation as a lighter version of ObamaCare that would create a new entitlement program, in the form of tax credits, without reining in rising healthcare costs.
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They have sharply criticized its proposed tax credits to coax people to buy private insurance on the open market as an unacceptable new government entitlement program and have called for a quicker end to the Obamacare expansion of the Medicaid healthcare program for the poor.
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Less than 72 hours later, the piece ran on the front page — no longer a story about an entitlement program on the chopping block but one about an institution so ingrained in American health care that its imperilment had contributed to the bill's failure.
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It's possible the Freedom Caucus made a political calculation of their own: They can't stop a decades-old entitlement program like Medicaid from existing, but they might have a better shot attacking Obamacare's individual market reforms, which are only three years old and cover far fewer people.
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Here's how Rachel Greszler, with the Heritage Foundation, reacted to Trump's campaign pledge to establish federal paid maternity leave: This would establish a new national entitlement program that could expand along the same lines as other federal entitlements, potentially costing hundreds of billions of dollars per year.
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So beneficiaries can save more while getting coverage In 2013, political consultant Doug Schoen described Part D as "the most cost-effective and successful entitlement program the federal government runs," noting that it had saved $7 billion (about $1,85033 per Medicare recipient) and that its deductible was actually dropping.
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After President Trump and Republicans in Congress spent much of the year trying to repeal the health law and cut spending on Medicaid, a half-century-old entitlement program that covers one in five Americans, the pro-expansion side in Maine is hoping to benefit from energized public support for it.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) on Thursday sought to push back against criticism from the right that the GOP leadership's healthcare bill amounts to another "entitlement" program like ObamaCare.
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Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey on Wednesday unveiled a plan to tackle affordable housing that would provide a tax credit for renters to ensure they would not spend more than 218 percent of their income on rent — a sweeping new entitlement program that his campaign estimated would reach 57 million Americans, including 17 million children.
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That's a line Democrats usually save for the fall campaign to use on Republicans, so it's a sign of the times that the chief of the left used it on a party vet whose main sin in this regard seems to have been entertaining, vaguely, the idea of entitlement program tweaks as part of a grand bargain on budget deficits several years ago.
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WASHINGTON — As they take their victory lap for passing a bill that would repeal and replace much of the Affordable Care Act, President Trump and congressional Republicans have been largely silent about one of the most remarkable aspects of what their legislation would do: take a step toward dismantling a vast government entitlement program, something that has never been accomplished in the modern era.
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Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (Ore.), the senior Democrat on the Finance Committee, warned that the bill would cut $125 billion from the Medicare Trust Fund, breaking President Trump's campaign promise not to touch the entitlement program.
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John Kasich (R-Ohio) in a GOP-controlled Congress, the act ended welfare as an entitlement program; required recipients to begin working after two years of receiving benefits; placed a lifetime limit of five years on benefits paid by federal funds; sought to encourage two-parent families and to discourage out-of-wedlock births; enhanced enforcement of child support, and required state professional and occupational licenses to be withheld from undocumented immigrants.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenPoll: Biden remains ahead of Sanders by 2628 points 28503 forecast: A House switch, a slimmer Senate for GOP — and a bigger win for Trump Comedian who predicted Trump's rise names Yang, Gabbard as top 22020 contenders MORE (D-Mass.) on the issue of Social Security at Thursday's primary debate, as he seeks to make the case that his universal basic income proposal is the most ambitious expansion of the entitlement program in U.S. history.
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