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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.
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MiBolsilloColombia on MSNMedicaid cuts: A $715 billion savings at the cost of 8.6 million people?The legislative proposal in the US House of Representatives seeks to reform Medicaid, promising savings of $715 billion. However, these savings could leave 8.6 million Americans without health insurance by 2034.
Medicaid has become a key hot button topic in the sweeping tax and spending cuts bill that House Republicans are scrambling to pass as soon as this week.
WASHINGTON – House Republicans defended a bill that would enact sweeping tax cuts, raise the debt ceiling, and add restrictions to benefit programs during a heated marathon day of committee hearings on Capitol Hill.
House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee this week unveiled a plan to cut more than $880 billion to pay for a significant portion of President Trump’s domestic agenda. After
Republican lawmakers are calling for work requirements, stricter eligibility verification and some co-pays.
These proposed changes threaten access to care for millions of Americans, particularly those in underserved areas, where our member systems work every day to provide quality, compassionate care.”
Nevertheless, a new letter sent Monday from the CBO to committee Chairman Brett Guthrie confirms that the panel's legislative recommendations, released late Sunday, would meet its lofty target for $880 billion of savings over the next decade.
The bipartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates has about $200 billion of the savings from energy programs and $715 billion from Medicaid. The proposal could lead to 8.5 million beneficiaries, ab
House Republicans have been talking for months about potentially slashing Medicaid, but this week they unveiled, for the first time, language of a bill outlining exactly how they plan to do that.
While health care experts in Massachusetts say Medicaid fraud does exist, they add that doing more to identify such waste is unlikely to achieve big savings.
Medicaid spending is skyrocketing because blue states claim several dollars in federal aid for every dollar they spend on the program – without any upper limit.