Politico

By: Christine Sexton

The partisan divide in Congress over health care policy predictably rippled through the ranks of Florida lawmakers on Thursday after the Senate finally unveiled its long-awaited plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

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Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families and Research Professor at Georgetown University, joined Castor on the call. Alker, who has studied Florida’s Medicaid program for more than a decade, called the bill troubling and said that the caps allow the federal government for the first time in 50 years to walk away from its financial commitment to Medicaid.

“What’s even more troubling is this has nothing to do with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, this is just something Congress is doing while they are in the neighborhood with virtually no public scrutiny,’’ Alker said.

“This is an extraordinarily troubling direction the Congress is considering,’’ Alker said. “It would undermine something that our country should be proud of which is this remarkable progress in reducing the number of uninsured children.”

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