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Medicaid cuts would require an act of Congress, and with the GOP set to hold a trifecta, Trump would be well positioned to reduce Medicaid spending should he pursue it.
Though Trump vowed during the campaign to protect Medicare, the government insurance program for adults over 65, he hasn't made the same promise about Medicaid, which provides health insurance for ...
The plan cuts federal funding for the federal-state Medicaid program by 34% by 2022, and by steadily larger amounts in years after that. For services such as education, law enforcement, water treatment, and disaster response, states would lose over $247 billion in federal funding from 2013–2021.
Several states have trigger laws where if federal funding drops, so would Medicaid expansion. NC 1 of 9 states that could halt Medicaid expansion if Trump cuts funding Skip to main content
[291] [dead link ] The CBO claimed the bill would "substantially reduce the growth of Medicare's payment rates for most services; impose an excise tax on insurance plans with relatively high premiums; and make various other changes to the federal tax code, Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs" [292] —ultimately extending the solvency of ...
Oct. 2—It has become as familiar a sight in Washington as the cherry blossoms in spring: lobbyists from the nation's hospitals descending on the Capitol to ask lawmakers to postpone billions in ...
Unlike Medicaid, Medicare is a social insurance program funded at the federal level and focuses primarily on the older population. [65] Medicare is a health insurance program for people age 65 or older, people under age 65 with certain disabilities, and (through the End Stage Renal Disease Program ) people of all ages with end-stage renal ...
The law includes the largest expansion of Medicaid coverage for poor adults in the program’s history. The ACA creates a new minimum standard allowing legal U.S. residents with incomes just above the poverty level to enroll in the program. The federal government will cover no less than 90 percent of the new spending.