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Republicans’ Changes to Medicaid Could Have Larger Impact Than Their Changes to Obamacare

The New York Times

By: Haeyoun Park

By replacing the Affordable Care Act, Republicans will try to change the financing provided by the federal government to Medicaid, which is currently providing health coverage to 74 million Americans. Although these changes will occur after 2020, with this decision of decreasing the financing methods to cover Medicaid, many people will lose their health insurance coverage – especially those people in states that expanded Medicaid.

“This is potentially more major than repealing the Affordable Care Act,” said Joan Alker, the executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University.

Joan Alker is quoted throughout, and this article has good graphics.

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