Senators call on company to reveal how it will profit from Trump Medicaid cuts
Source: The Guardian
Mon 9 Jun 2025 14.59 EDT
Last modified on Mon 9 Jun 2025 15.37 EDT
Two Democratic senators are demanding to know how a company that administers government benefits could profit from Republican-led cuts to Medicaid, the public health insurance program for people who are low-income, elderly and disabled.
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden sent the letter to Maximus, Inc on Monday. The company is the largest private contractor to states who seek to outsource their administration of government assistance, including health insurance and food aid.
“Maximus’s long history of kicking Americans off of Medicaid to boost their profits should be a warning of what’s to come if Republicans pass their ‘big beautiful bill’,” Warren told the Guardian. “We need to hold Maximus accountable for padding their bottom line by making Americans suffer.”
Maximus is a publicly traded company with a market capitalization of $3.9bn. It is the largest company in an industry that helps states privatize administrative obligations in programs that serve the poorest residents – a phenomenon one media outlet described as the “welfare-to-work industrial complex”. Warren and Wyden wrote that the company, “has an abysmal track record, with reports of egregious backlogs and service delays and several reported instances of fraud”.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/medicaid-maximus-inc-elizabeth-warren-ron-wyden
Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25968214/maximusletter.pdf