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The Indianapolis Star
Seema Verma, the Indiana healthcare consultant who has been tapped to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, wants to give states more ability to craft their own health care systems for the poor. Exhibit A is likely to be Indiana's alternative Medicaid program, which Verma designed, and which has been praised by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price as a national model.
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CNN
When a group of health officials, including Seema Verma, made their first pitch to the Indiana governor on a healthcare plan, it didn't go well. At the time of the first pitch in 2006, Verma was a low-level policy consultant on a team seeking to provide government-funded health insurance to the working poor — long before President Barack Obama pushed his signature healthcare law through Congress.
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The Hill
A key House Republican in the healthcare fight said Wednesday that lawmakers are considering a way to deal with their dilemma on Obamacare's Medicaid expansion by increasing payments to states that rejected the expansion. Kentucky Rep. Brett Guthrie, the vice chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health, told reporters that one option under consideration is to freeze new enrollment in the 31 states that expanded the program, while increasing certain payments to the 19 states that did not expand.
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CQ.com via Roll Call
Senators are warning that major changes to the Medicaid program may not survive the upper chamber, despite an aggressive push from House Speaker Paul D. Ryan to include a substantial overhaul of the program in the Republican measure to repeal the healthcare law.
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Politico
Republicans determined to cut Medicaid may first have to pour more money into it to keep the peace between Republican governors who expanded healthcare for low-income people under Obamacare and those who resisted. It's all part of the GOP's long-term plan to dramatically revamp the healthcare entitlement for the poor in order to cap what they see as runaway federal spending.
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The Hill
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) said Monday that crowds of people at town halls across the country worried about the fate of Obamacare will not alter Republican plans to repeal and replace the law. Brady, a key player on healthcare, was asked by reporters if the pro-Obamacare sentiment at town halls would "have any impact to the Republican push to repeal and replace."
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Modern Healthcare
Hospitals in central Illinois are rejecting managed Medicaid plans at such a troubling rate that lawmakers are calling it a "crisis." Decatur Memorial Hospital, Memorial Hospital System and Hospital Sisters Health System have all announced plans to cut ties with Molina Healthcare of Illinois over the last few months. The decision puts tens of thousands of patients in central Illinois in a tough position as the region's other managed care plan, Health Alliance, exited the market last year.
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Kaiser Health News
The Affordable Care Act created new health coverage opportunities for more than half a million Native Americans and Alaska Natives — and jobs have followed on its coattails. In Montana, this is playing out at the Blackfeet Community Hospital. It's the only hospital on the Blackfeet reservation, and has been mostly funded — and chronically underfunded — by the Indian Health Service, which has been in charge of Native American healthcare since its founding in the 1950s. But now, many Native Americans have been able to afford health insurance on the Obamacare exchange, and last year, Montana expanded Medicaid. Now, about 1 in 7 reservation residents gets Medicaid.
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Kaiser Health News
The latest flashpoint in the ongoing debate over high drug prices is Emflaza, an $89,000-a-year drug that treats Duchenne muscular dystrophy. People who have been watching the drug price issue closely, however, can reasonably ask why there is so much heat at that price tag? Late last year, two drugs went on the market for six-figure prices. Exondys 51 sells for $300,000 a year and Spinraza for a whopping $750,000.
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STAT
President Donald Trump's administration has made clear its intention to remake Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health care to lower-income families and individuals, seniors and those with disabilities. It won't be easy.
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