With Medicaid cuts looming, misinformation spreads on social media
A protester holds a sign reading ‘Cutting Medicaid is Murder’ during a demonstration against Elon Musk and the Trump administration outside the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on March 4. Moves by Republican lawmakers to scale back Medicaid have led to misconceptions about immigrants, especially Latinos. Photo by Jeremy Hogan / Getty Images
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Spending cuts, immigration and Medicaid are at the top of the Washington agenda. That climate provides fertile ground for misinformation and myths to multiply on social networks. Some of the most common are those surrounding immigrants, Latinos and Medicaid.
These claims include assertions that Latinos who use Medicaid, the federal-state program for low-income people and those with disabilities, “do not work” and exaggerations of the percentage of people with Medicaid who are Latino.
The U.S. House voted narrowly Feb. 26 in favor of a budget blueprint that could lead to Medicaid cuts of up to $880 billion over a decade.
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