MedPage Today
By: Shannon Firth
Medicaid may have escaped deep cuts this summer, after several repeal and replace bills foundered in the Senate, but the administration has another vehicle for implementing conservative-friendly changes on a state-by-state basis through the waiver process.
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Waivers are intended to pursue the objective of the Medicaid program, observed Joan Alker, executive director for the Center for Children and Families.
“Taking coverage away from people … unless you’re 100% certain everybody’s going to get coverage and they’re going to get just as good coverage,” doesn’t meet that objective, she argued.
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