S405 would appropriate at least $690 million in Medicaid funding for each year of the FY 2025-2027 biennium, among other provisions.

The Senate passed S405 on September 22, 2025, by a vote of 47 to 0. We have assigned minuses to the ayes because neither healthcare nor "social welfare" is the legitimate object of government. Medicaid is a joint federal and state "entitlement" scheme that is not authorized according to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. It relies on discriminatory and unjust forms of taxation (e.g., personal or corporate income taxes) that provide "Medical Assistance benefits" to "eligible persons," who have little or no tax liability, at the expense of others—resulting in more debt, dependency, and poverty. The Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment were written to prevent such "nanny state" policies