Trump Administration Plans Effort to Let States Remodel Medicaid

Wall Street Journal

By: Stephanie Armour

The Trump administration is readying guidance that could let states remodel their Medicaid programs to more closely resemble block grant proposals favored by Republicans during their failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, according to people familiar with the discussions.

“Whenever there has been an initiative to make cuts to Medicaid that didn’t get through Congress, there are other efforts to make cuts,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University.

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