WLRN

By: Scott Horsley

With President-elect Donald Trump choices for healthcare administration in the government, healthcare experts, such as Joan Alker and Susan Jo Thomas, have become very concerned with the upcoming changes that programs like Medicaid will undergo nationally under this new administration.

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JOAN ALKER: She’s certainly been a thought leader in the last few years for Republican states on the direction they’d like to see the Medicaid program go in.

HORSLEY: Joan Alker studies Medicaid as head of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. She says the philosophy behind the Indiana Plan is that Medicaid recipients will make better decisions about health care if some of their own money is at stake. Alker herself is skeptical of how that might work on a national level.

ALKER: We can expect to see some far-reaching changes contemplated for Medicaid that will erect many more barriers to coverage and, in some cases, very punitive barriers.

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