The Daily Item

By: Joe Sylvester

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Thursday lashed out at Republicans for their health care bill, which he said would slash $880 billion from Medicaid, including funds that help students with disabilities.

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Schneider, a professor at Georgetown Center for Children & Families who has worked on Medicaid as a policy expert for the past 30 years, said Medicaid is the largest health insurer in the country for children, most of whom have disabilities.

Of the 77 million people on Medicaid, 34 million are children, said Schneider, who served as counsel to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and helped design major policy changes in the Medicaid program, including extending health coverage to millions of children.

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