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Medicaid Cuts Grow Harsher as GOP Attempts to Ram Trump Agenda Through House Before Memorial Day
The full court press is on to pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill” with President Trump visiting the House Republican Caucus this morning to pressure competing factions to just say “yes” and pass the bill this week — before the Memorial Day recess and before anyone has time to untangle what is in the bill.…
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Reconciliation Bill Would Restrict State Use of Provider Taxes and Undermine State Financing of Medicaid
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is completing its markup of its section of the House Republican budget reconciliation bill. The bill includes draconian Medicaid cuts, as well as cuts affecting the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, which would cut Medicaid enrollment by 10.3 million people and increase the number of uninsured by 7.6 million people…
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Combined Impact of Medicaid Cuts Under Consideration Would End Expansion and Take Away Coverage for Nearly 21 Million Low-Income People
In analyzing the draconian Medicaid cuts under consideration by House Republicans for inclusion in budget reconciliation legislation, it is often easier to examine each specific proposal in isolation. But it is important to also take a step back and look at how these proposals would interact with each other. In doing so, it is virtually…
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New State-by-State Estimates of the Federal Funding Cuts from Imposing a Per Capita Cap on the Medicaid Expansion
I previously warned about how imposing a per capita cap on the Medicaid expansion would effectively lead to a sharp cut to the current 90 percent matching rate for the 40 states and the District of Columbia that have adopted the expansion. This would shift significant costs to states, force them to drop their expansions…