NPR

By: Selena Simmons-Duffin

The Trump administration wants to dramatically alter the way the federal government gives money to states for Medicaid.

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Critics responded quickly to Thursday’s announcement. Eagan Kemp, health care policy advocate with the liberal advocacy group Public Citizen, called the program “a Medicaid block grant by another name.” Edwin Park of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families said this kind of arrangement is a bad deal for states. “[They’re] placing a fiscal straitjacket on themselves that will only lead to eventual cuts to their programs and harmful effects to their budgets,” he said.

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