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The Hill
Changing Medicaid is one of the touchiest fights within the GOP effort to replace Obamacare and could become even more toxic if Republicans decide to bring children's health insurance into the mix. Among the options under discussion to reform the state-federal health insurance program for the needy is tacking the provisions onto a separate funding renewal for the Children's Health Insurance Program, according to several lobbyists familiar with the negotiations.
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The Hill
House Republicans have been working with the Congressional Budget Office on parts of an Obamacare replacement that they could include in a repeal bill this spring, lobbyists and aides tell The Hill. They have been working with the CBO, Congress' nonpartisan budget scorekeeper, on the details of tax credits, high-risk pool funding, and changes to Medicaid that could be included in a repeal bill that Republicans hope to pass by the end of March. The bill will use the fast-track process known as reconciliation to avoid a filibuster by Senate Democrats.
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Morning Consult
A House subcommittee on Tuesday advanced two bills that tweak the rules to limit who is eligible for Medicaid. Republicans say the bills will help prioritize beneficiaries who most need the federal health care program for the poor, but Democrats criticized the bills for being "trivial" in the scope of broader GOP plans to reform Medicaid and overhaul the Affordable Care Act.
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The Hill
The Senate voted along party lines Wednesday evening to advance Georgia Rep. Tom Price's controversial nomination to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services to a final vote. Senators voted, 51-48, to pass a procedural step in Price's nomination, setting up a final confirmation vote for Friday morning.
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The Morning Call
As a part-time worker, Ashleigh Strange doesn't pay enough income tax to qualify for a subsidy under the Affordable Care Act. And without a subsidy, she can't afford health insurance on the marketplace. The 29-year-old Northampton resident is among the 700,000 Pennsylvanians — including 20,100 people in Lehigh County and 13,600 in Northampton County, according to a new report — who wouldn't have insurance if not for an ACA-authorized Medicaid expansion that took effect in 2015. The ACA, passed in 2009, is best known for creating online marketplaces that sell insurance that, depending on a customer's income, may be subsidized by a tax refund.
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The Connecticut Mirror
About 9,500 parents would lose Medicaid, fewer seniors would receive homecare, mental health and substance abuse treatment providers would receive millions of dollars less from the state of Connecticut, and school-based health centers would see a 10 percent funding cut under the budget plan Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed Wednesday. The plan aims to close a budget deficit projected at nearly $1.7 billion, and many of the individual cuts drew concern from providers and advocates for health and social service programs. Still, some said the plan left them more optimistic than had previous proposals by Malloy.
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Kaiser Health News
This economically depressed city in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains is an image of frozen-in-time decline: empty storefronts with faded facades, sagging power lines and aged streets with few stoplights. But there is one type of business that seems to thrive — pharmacies.
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