@lori you get to vote for cutting medicaid because that’s what your party wants to do but you evade the criticism that the effect will be to close hospitals that even some of your better-off / better enfranchised constituents rely upon.

the cost of stabilization fund is probably smaller than the medicaid cuts, so you can still claim net “savings” (although the costs in health will dwarf any financial savings, and the financial savings might be eaten by expensive mandatory ER care).