A recent post-election doomsday headline reads, “Trump’s White House return poised to tangle health care safety net.” The following are quotes from the litany of dire predictions that Trump will destroy the Medicaid safety net.

The last is particularly egregious after the immense medical, financial, and societal harm done to the American people during the COVID scam by the FDA, CDC and NIH, the very agencies tasked with “safeguard[ing] public health.” Challenge is the least that should be done to them.

Rather than disprove the above accusations in detail, consider why and how the U.S. medical safety net is indeed a tangled, complex, inefficient structure that spends too much and doesn’t provide adequate medical care. Answer: Washington. The federal government is constantly over-regulating Medicaid and Medicare so that medical care becomes increasingly less accessible while spending insane amounts of taxpayer dollars doing it.

The original 1965 Medicaid medical safety net was intended “to increase benefits [for a small number of Americans] under the Old-age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance System.” In 1966, four million Americans were enrolled in Medicaid. With repeated federal expansion of eligibility rules over 57 years, the Medicaid safety net covered 92.3 million Americans — 27.6 percent of the entire population — by December 2022.

Not only did CMS (Centers for........

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