Tonic
By: Jason Silverstein
Trumpcare and the American Health Care Act are still on the watch, as it still has not been approved because even Republicans did not think it was the appropriate plan to leave thousands of Americans without healthcare coverage.
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Medicaid pays for nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States. An Obamacare repeal or a zombie Trumpcare bill can’t end coverage entirely, but it can affect what states are able to cover if their funding is cut through the implementation of block grants or caps on per capita spending. “Any cuts to Medicaid are going to leave states scrambling to figure out how to manage,” says Tricia Brooks, associate research professor of the practice at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy. “I just don’t think that they can easily manage without making cuts to the program.”
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