The Washington Post
By: Paige Winfield Cunningham
With repeal-and-replace stalled indefinitely in Congress — which has hurt prospects for any smaller legislative tweaks — the second bucket may be the only opportunity that remains if Trump and his appointees want to make their mark on health care.
Part of the delay could be because Price and Co. were watching Congress to see what it would do with the various GOP health-care bills, all of which would have pulled back on Medicaid expansion dollars.
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“I would imagine they’ve been slowed down by all the repeal efforts,” said Joan Alker, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families. “States were waiting to see what was going to happen — a lot of the waiver requests are related to Medicaid expansion.”
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