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Medicaid Advocates Say Critics Use Loaded Terms To Gain Edge in Congressional Debate - KFF Health News

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Summary
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80% Informative

Republican lawmakers and policy officials are using charged language to describe Medicaid .

Language experts and advocates for Medicaid enrollees say their word choice is misleading and aims to sway public opinion against the popular, 60-year-old government program.

They say it’s “discrimination” that the federal government matches state funding at a higher rate for adults covered by the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion than other enrollees.

The words “discrimination” and “money laundering” have been used in reports from the Paragon Health Institute .

The think tank is led by a former Trump adviser, Brian Blase .

Blase says there’s no ulterior motive in the reports.

The Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University defended provider taxes as legal.

VR Score

81

Informative language

79

Neutral language

58

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

62

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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