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Policymakers Must Act Quickly to Meet Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands’ Medicaid Needs
More federal aid for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands’ Medicaid programs is essential to their recovery from Hurricanes Maria and Irma, as we explained here and here. → Read More
House GOP Spending Bill Falls Short on CHIP, Community Health Centers, Puerto Rico
House Republicans’ “continuing resolution” to fund the federal government through January 19 includes bills to continue funding the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and community health centers. But those bills suffer from the same fatal flaws as House GOP bills from earlier this fall that have derailed action on these issues for months — even though some states are notifying families… → Read More
Trump Disaster Relief Request Doesn’t Address Any of Puerto Rico’s Medicaid Needs
As we’ve explained (here and here), increased federal assistance for the Medicaid programs of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands is essential for their hard and protracted recovery from Hurricanes Maria and Irma. → Read More
Why House Bill’s Medicaid Funding for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands Falls Way Short
The additional federal Medicaid funds for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the HEALTHY KIDS Act — which the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed on a party-line vote yesterday to continue funding the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — fall well short of what those U.S. → Read More
Assessing the New House Republican CHIP Bill
The bill includes sound CHIP funding provisions; however, the Puerto Rico provisions fall well short of the assistance needed, and the provisions to offset the cost of the bill raise substantial concerns. → Read More
Cassidy-Graham Plan’s Damaging Cuts to Health Care Funding Would Grow Dramatically in 2027
In 2027 alone, the bill would cut federal health care funding by $299 billion relative to current law, with the cuts affecting all states. → Read More
CBO: Severe Harm If Trump Halts Health Cost-Sharing Payments
Stopping cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments to insurers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as President Trump has repeatedly threatened, would drive up federal marketplace subsidy costs, raise premiums, cause more insurers to withdraw from the marketplaces, and increase the number of uninsured next year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found today. Key findings include: → Read More
Senate Bill’s Medicaid Cuts Would Be Even Deeper than House Cuts
As we explained yesterday, the emerging Senate health bill would reportedly lower the annual increase in state Medicaid funding under a per capita cap to the general inflation rate starting around 2025, which is well below the House-passed bill’s already inadequate growth rate. That means states would have to absorb much deeper cuts in federal Medicaid funding over the long run than under the… → Read More
Senate Reportedly Considering Even Deeper Medicaid Cuts Under Per Capita Cap
Senate Republican leaders are reportedly considering lowering the annual increase in state Medicaid funding under a per capita cap below the House bill’s already inadequate rate starting around 2025. That means states would have to absorb even deeper cuts in federal Medicaid funding than under the House bill — which would cut federal Medicaid spending by $834 billion over ten years and slash… → Read More
New CBO Estimates: 23 Million More Uninsured Under House-Passed Republican Health Bill
The bill would still reverse all of the historic coverage gains achieved since the ACA was enacted in 2010. → Read More
Trump Budget Cuts Medicaid Even More Than House Health Bill, Showing Danger of Per Capita Cap
President Trump’s budget not only assumes the huge Medicaid cuts in the House Republican bill to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) but dramatically enlarges them. → Read More
Toomey-Lee Proposal Would Significantly Expand House Bill’s Already Deep Medicaid Cuts
Some Senate Republicans are seeking additional changes to the per capita cap that would dramatically expand those already highly damaging cuts. → Read More
History Shows Gutting Essential Health Benefits Would Likely Promote Fraud, Abuse
Permitting states to waive the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) minimum benefit standards (“Essential Health Benefits,” or EHB) for individual and small-group market plans, as the MacArthur-Meadows amendment to the House ACA repeal bill would do, would likely leave many people with pre-existing conditions unable to find coverage at any price, cause women to be charged more than men, and expose many… → Read More
Tweak to House GOP Health Bill Much Ado About Nothing
House Republican leaders seeking to revive their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have unveiled a new provision intended to help stabilize the individual insurance market, which they cite as evidence that they’re making significant progress. → Read More
Updated House ACA Repeal Bill Deepens Damaging Medicaid Cuts for Low-Income Individuals and Families
The updated House Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act takes an already damaging plan and makes it even more harmful. → Read More
CBO: 24 Million People Would Lose Coverage Under House Republican Health Plan
The House Republican health plan to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and radically restructure Medicaid would cause 24 million people to lose coverage by 2026 and drive $880 billion in federal Medicaid cuts over the next ten years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated today. This means the plan would eventually reverse all of the nation’s expected historic coverage gains… → Read More
House Republican Health Plan Shifts $370 Billion in Medicaid Costs to States
The funding cuts would force states to end the expansion for low-income adults, and cut coverage and services for other groups. → Read More
House GOP Medicaid Provisions Would Shift $370 Billion in Costs to States Over Decade
The new House Republican health plan would shift an estimated $370 billion in Medicaid costs to states over the next ten years. → Read More
House GOP Medicaid Provisions Would Cut Federal Medicaid Spending by $560 Billion Over Next Decade
The House Republican health plan would shift an estimated $560 billion in Medicaid costs to states over the next ten years. → Read More
House Republican Proposals to Radically Overhaul Medicaid Would Shift Costs, Risks to States
House Republicans released a document last week outlining plans for sweeping health care legislation.[1] The document shows that the starting point for House Republican proposals remains the Affordable Care Act (ACA) “repeal and delay” legislation that President Obama vetoed last year — a bill that would increase the number of uninsured by 32 million people, according to Congressional Budget… → Read More