Sunday, August 20, 2017

Republicans Have A New Plot To Gut Medicaid And They Don't Need Congress

Alice Ollstein · Thursday, August 17, 2017, 6:10 am

A wave of Republican-controlled states are petitioning the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for permission to enact measures that will knock more people off Medicaid and the Trump administration has signaled they will give a green light to these efforts.

After the collapse of Obamacare repeal in Congress, which would have cut hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of people from Medicaid–the public health insurance program for the poor–red states and their allies in the Trump administration are preparing to use a powerful administrative tool as a backdoor route to that same goal.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/medicaid-waivers-trump-hhs

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