Capital & Main

By: Rex Weiner

If put under a large enough stethoscope and asked to cough, America would appear to require an ambulance. Amidst a dark and gathering cloud of negative indicators, death rates for cardiovascular disease and drug overdoses are up nationally, according to the United Health Foundation, and adult obesity increased 157 percent since the UHF’s first America’s Health Rankings Annual Report in 1990.

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The per-capita cap would amount to an $880 billion cut over 10 years to Medicaid—the estimate delivered by the Congressional Budget Office when it analyzed the first – and rejected – draft of the AHCA. A block grant would go further, and would also weaken coverage protections for children and parents, according to the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.

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