Deseret News
By: Jennifer Graham
The new bill proposed by House Republicans, the American Health Care Act, is intended to replace the Affordable Care Act by mainly changing the funding of health coverage for the low-income population.
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Medicaid, which covers one in five Americans, is administered by the states, with funding from the federal government that fluctuates according to need. (The states contribute, too.) But the new plan puts a cap on Medicaid spending, which some people say will hurt the poorest and sickest Americans. The changes to Medicaid are among the most controversial measures of the Republican plan, and their inclusion are “potentially more major than repealing the Affordable Care Act,” Joan Alker, the executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, said in The New York Times.
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