Conservatives Launch Full-Court Press To Speed Up The End Of Medicaid Expansion
By ALICE OLLSTEIN AND TIERNEY SNEED Published MARCH 9, 2017, 10:40 AM EDT
With the fate of the GOP bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act in jeopardy, President Donald Trump huddled Wednesday night with outside conservative groups—including the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation and the Tea Party Patriots—to debate the most sensitive and divisive questions surrounding the health care overhaul.
In that meeting, the president heard the concerns from the conservative members that Medicaid expansion was being allowed to continue under the leading House GOP health care overhaul bill, and he was reportedly open to negotiating around their demands.
This would please hardline conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus, who have introduced their own bill to strip away the Medicaid expansion over two years, but it would alienate moderate Republicans whose states have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to cover millions of low-income residents.
Changes to the Medicaid expansion provision in the current House leadership legislation were one of a number of ideas floated between the conservative leaders and Trump, people in the room told Politico. FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon confirmed with TPM Thursday morning that the tropic came up and White House officials heard their frustrations with how the Medicaid expansion was treated in the House leadership's Obamacare replacement, the American Health Care Act.
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This is really the The Increase American Healthcare Profitability Act.
