Study: House ObamaCare bill cuts $43B in Medicaid funds for children

[riversedge]

Source: the hill




By Peter Sullivan - 05/18/17 12:00 AM EDT



The House GOP’s ObamaCare replacement bill would result in a cut of $43 billion over 10 years in funding for Medicaid coverage of children, according to a new study.

The study from the consulting firm Avalere finds that the cuts to coverage for non-disabled children would come as a result of a new cap on Medicaid payments that the bill would impose, known as a per capita cap.

“Over time, per capita caps could significantly reduce the amount of funding that goes towards Medicaid coverage for children,” Dan Mendelson, president of Avalere, said in a statement. “While local control and more efficient operation of Medicaid programs are laudable goals, coverage and access for low income children are ultimately dictated by federal funding, and reductions of this magnitude could disrupt access.”

Republicans argue that the cap in the bill is necessary to get a hold on what they view as unsustainably high federal spending on Medicaid.
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Read more: https://origin-nyi.thehill.com/policy/healthcare/333904-study-house-obamacare-bill-cuts-43b-in-medicaid-funds-for-children

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[flor-de-jasmim]

1. House TRUMPCare, I think you mean.

[Honeycombe8]

2. TrumpCare. This is sickening. All to give that money to the very wealthy. Sickening. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

10. TrumpKill is more like it.

[chillfactor]

3. the republicans want children to suffer...

and old folks like me to die...unless of course, the children and seniors are in their own families.

[CottonBear]

4. Only evil, inhuman monsters would take medical care away from babies & children.

So, I am going to lose my ACA insurance and my minor child will lose his Medicaid coverage.

I am reeling. WTF am I supposed too do? I lost my professional career job in the recession and now I am old with a small child and can't get hired for a decent job. Yet, I need to work until I'm 68 or 70 to get my kid through college.

[atreides1]

7. You've just described a Republican!

Evil, inhuman monsters...and this applies to those who vote Republican, not just the politicians that they vote for!

[Hortensis]

8. No, they don't. And that's good. There's a huge difference between

what the people engineering this at the top want and what the majority of the deluded fools voting for them want. It is tremendously to our advantage that most do really want the ACA, just under a new, reassuringly Republican label.

Good luck finding a job with insurance benefits soon. You only need one!

Seriously, I really feel for your dilemma. These days I work as a home-based independent contractor doing mostly technical document editing. Income's declined substantially due to competition from people who'll work for room and board, so to speak, but no one cares how old I am. Plain old jobs in our rural area are both scarce and low pay, and trying to return to a salaried position at my age is something I don't even want to imagine.

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R for exposure.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Republicon Representatives are the meanest people in the world.

There are some people who are truly evil (Mugabe, Kim, Daesh-IS, too many to list), but the RepubliCONs are mean, mean, mean whenever they can get away with it and they will try when they aren't sure they can get away with it. It's so bad it seems that they are mean just for the sake of being mean which makes them kind of evil.

"Think of the children"

"Family Values"

Did I say Republicons are hypocritical? Let me do so. Republicons are hypocritical in the extreme.

[Nitram]

9. Who cares if the children of poor people die. It's the New Eugenics.

[DK504]

11. It is Ryan (doesn't) care and Dumpcare.

This has nothing to do with the ACA/Obamacare.

This I a gutting of working class and the middle classes ability to move up financially.