Donald Trump, GOP and Medicaid
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New rules would restrict access to the low-income health insurance program, punish states covering undocumented children, and shift costs to states.
The Energy and Commerce Committee pulled an all-nighter debating the potential impacts of Republican proposals to change Medicaid, part of the GOP’s domestic policy megabill.
Donald Trump is back in the White House, the GOP controls Congress, and Republicans have dusted off their 2017 plans to reshape Medicaid.
Sanders is counting policy changes not in the current draft to reach the higher, 13.7 million figure. The Republican proposal to cut federal spending will end up kicking millions of Americans off health insurance,
On the one hand, the conservative leader of the Freedom Caucus derides the new Medicaid work requirements as a “joke” that do not go far enough at cost-cutting. Meanwhile, a handful of GOP ...
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MiBolsilloColombia on MSNThe Republican Party itself resists cuts in Medicaid, enemies at home?As the Republican Party debates federal spending control, internal resistance to Medicaid funding changes raises questions about internal opposition. Are some Republican legislators the 'enemies' of these cuts?
Lawmakers are sparring over how deeply and quickly to trim the program for low-income Americans, slowing the passage of Trump’s tax-and-spending agenda.
House Republicans plan to enact work requirements and more frequent eligibility checks for Medicaid. But the proposal does not pursue some of the deeper cuts that lawmakers had considered.
While Democrats labeled the scorekeeper’s report as proof that Republican policies would lead to “catastrophic" Medicaid cuts, Republicans have said Democrats are seeking to “fear monger" Americans.
The Medicaid portion of the House GOP’s massive domestic policy bill would result in 10.3 million people losing Medicaid coverage by 2034, and 7.6 million people going uninsured, according