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The Hill
Republicans are pushing forward with their plans to repeal and replace Obamacare despite sharp divisions that were not closed by President Donald Trump's address to Congress on Tuesday night. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is planning to mark up repeal-and-replace legislation next week, Rep. Chris Collins (R-New York), a member of the panel, said Wednesday. However, that action comes as a path forward for legislation in the House remains unclear.
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Los Angeles Times
It's the program that everyone confuses with Medicare. But Medicaid, the half-century-old government health plan for the poor, is actually bigger than its more famous cousin, covering some 70 million Americans at any one time. Expanding Medicaid was a central pillar of the Affordable Care Act, helping to bring health coverage to more than 20 million previously uninsured people. But Medicaid has long been a political football. Now, Republicans are talking about dramatically rolling it back and restructuring the way the federal government pays for it.
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The Hill
A new study finds that financial assistance under proposed Republican replacement plans would provide significantly less help for low-income people than under Obamacare. The study from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that the average tax credit to help people buy insurance would be at least 36 percent lower in 2020 under Republican replacement plans than under the Affordable Care Act.
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The Plain Dealer
Who are the 700,000 Ohioans who have received health insurance under Medicaid expansion? And has the insurance really made a difference? A state report conducted for the Ohio General Assembly provides a snapshot, based on questioning of new Medicaid recipients added as a result of Obamacare.
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Winston-Salem Journal
Expanding North Carolina's Medicaid program in 2018-19 and providing more funding to address the state's opioid crisis are among the top priorities of Gov. Roy Cooper's budget when it comes to healthcare. The budgets for the next two fiscal years, unveiled Wednesday, would provide a $3.76 million Medicaid rebase adjustment for 2017-18 and a $112.6 million adjustment for 2018-19.
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The Associated Press via The News & Observer
The Arkansas House has approved and sent to the state Senate a bill to freeze enrollment in the state's hybrid Medicaid expansion while the future of the federal health overhaul that enabled the program remains unclear. The House voted, 55-32, Wednesday for the measure prohibiting the state from accepting new enrollees in the program that uses Medicaid funds to purchase private insurance for low-income residents. The legislation requires the state to file paperwork with federal officials asking for approval to implement the freeze that would take effect July 1.
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