USA Today
By: Maureen Groppe and Tony Cook
President-elect Donald Trump chose Seema Verma as the next Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator. Many healthcare experts are concerned about Trump’s choices, because, as Joan Alker mentioned, there are many people that rely on Medicaid and Medicare and they will be facing hard times with this new administration.
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“Those who are concerned about the health and well-being of Americans who rely on Medicaid and Medicare should brace themselves for tumultuous times ahead,” wrote Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.
Alker, with the Georgetown center, expects the new administration to test what the law allows.
“We are going to see a lot of questions being raised about what you can and cannot waive in the Medicaid statute,” she said. “But in general…I do think that we will see some potentially far reaching changes contemplated to Medicaid that will erect more barriers to coverage, and in some cases very punitive barriers.”
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