The Charlotte Observer By: Tony Pugh President Donald Trump’s new budget proposal calls for stripping $610 billion from the Medicaid program over the next 10 years – providing an executive-branch rubber stamp of key provisions in Obamacare repeal legislation being championed by Republicans in the House of Representatives. … Since half of Medicaid beneficiaries are children, […]
Kaiser Health News Back in January, Republicans boasted they would deliver a “repeal and replace” bill for the Affordable Care Act to President Donald Trump’s desk by the end of the month. In the interim, that bravado has faded as their efforts stalled and they found out how complicated undoing a major law can be. […]
Ellwood City Ledger By: J.D. Prose Proposed Medicaid cuts of $880 billion included in U.S. House Republican’s health-care reform plan would devastate funding for students, especially those with disabilities, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey said Thursday. “It rips away health care; it undermines health care,” Casey, D-Scranton, said of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which […]
The Daily Item By: Joe Sylvester U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Thursday lashed out at Republicans for their health care bill, which he said would slash $880 billion from Medicaid, including funds that help students with disabilities. … Schneider, a professor at Georgetown Center for Children & Families who has worked on Medicaid as a policy expert […]
Becker’s Hospital Review By: Kelly Gooch The version of the GOP’s ACA replacement plan approved by the House of Representatives could jeopardize funding for children’s health coverage, reports USA Today. … With those proposed cuts, “there’s absolutely no way kids can stay out of harm’s way,” Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center on […]
The Los Angeles Times By: Michael Hiltzik We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: In the ridiculous mess that is the American healthcare system, there’s one indisputable success — children’s health coverage. Over the last two decades, the uninsured rate for children under 18 has fallen from 14% to less than 5%. … Today […]
