Republicans have promised to hold harmless from Medicare changes everyone under age 55, assuring high-voting senior citizens that they have nothing to fear from Republican budget plans. But while Medicare is left alone until 2023, Medicaid is immediately subject to very large cuts. Many of us may think of Medicaid as above all a program for the poor. It is also, however, increasingly the way in which America pays for nursing home care -- and indeed nursing care is the fastest-growing part of Medicaid. Very large and immediate Medicaid cuts draw a large early question mark over the future of nursing care -- not just for those now under 55, but for the current elderly.

Sarah Kliff fact-checks Clinton's Medicare and Medicaid attacks. He claimed that "nearly two-thirds of Medicaid is spent on nursing home care for Medicare seniors who are eligible for Medicaid." That isn't true: