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The Washington Post
Two key House committees have approved a Republican proposal to revise the Affordable Care Act, giving the bill its first victories amid a backlash that both Republican leaders and President Donald Trump are trying to tamp down. The House Ways and Means Committee voted 23 to 16 to advance the American Health Care Act shortly before 4:30 a.m. Thursday after about 18 hours of debate. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 31 to 23 to advance the bill at 1:45 p.m. after about 27 hours of debate.
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Inside Health Policy (Subscription required)
States would be required to determine Medicaid eligibility every six months starting Oct. 1 under a section in the House Energy & Commerce's piece of the GOP's ACA repeal and replacement bill, a move healthcare experts say would be burdensome for states and managed care plans and would accelerate churning out of Medicaid.
The policy will also affect managed care plans that could lose consumers they've been working with on care coordination and other quality improvement measures who may not re-enroll in the same plan. Jeff Myers, CEO and President of the Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA), says while plans have nothing to do with the eligibility process, more frequent renewals could disrupt efforts to provide care management services to beneficiaries.
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The Hill
A top Medicaid official came out against GOP leadership's newly unveiled plan to repeal and replace Obamacare Wednesday. "Despite political messaging from others at HHS, I align with the experts from [American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics and American Medical Association] in opposition to #AHCA," Andrey Ostrovsky, chief medical officer for The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS), wrote on Twitter.
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The Washington Post
On Monday, House leaders released legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act. If it passes, here's what would change.
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ABC News
Republican governors complain that a GOP proposal to replace former President Barack Obama's healthcare law would force millions of lower-income earners off insurance rolls or stick states with the cost of keeping them covered. Governors, especially those from political battleground states, were generally cool to the bill put forth in the Republican-controlled U.S. House. Some signaled that they would continue working on their own legislation to compete with the measure introduced Monday.
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The Fiscal Times
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) are promoting the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act in the face of mounting opposition. The plan — which scraps most of the mandates and tax subsidies in the 2010 Affordable Care Act and replaces them with a new system of tax credits based on age and income — has drawn sharp fire from conservatives who have dismissed it as "Obamacare lite" and from Democrats who warn that it would result in millions of Americans losing their health insurance.
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Politico
House Republicans who last year made good on longstanding promises to overhaul the mental health system could roll back coverage for millions of people with mental illness and addiction problems by overhauling Medicaid as part of an Obamacare repeal package.
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The Arizona Republic
The U.S. House Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act would phase out Arizona's Medicaid expansion after 2020 and limit subsidies that help low-income residents purchase health insurance. Healthcare experts predict the bill could mean fewer people would be covered under the Republican plan. It's unclear how much of an effect the changes will have on Arizonans, but a few things are known.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker would not say Wednesday whether he supports House Speaker Paul Ryan's plan to replace Obamacare in its current form, repeatedly calling it "a work in progress" at a pair of stops. The governor and other Republicans for six years have railed against the Affordable Care Act, but Walker claimed repealing it and replacing it with Ryan's plan would not affect most people.
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Georgia Health News
The Georgia House speaker said Wednesday that while he hasn’t had time to study the new Republican healthcare plan in Congress, he has initial concerns about it. David Ralston, a Republican from Blue Ridge, told attendees at the Atlanta Press Club that he has some worry that Georgia, as a state that has not expanded Medicaid, may be hurt under the new plan. And he said he hopes Republicans won't rush a plan through Congress, and "will take the time to get it right."
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The Hill
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) is raising warnings that the GOP's Obamacare repeal bill will hammer his home state. King warned that a 60-year-old living in rural Aroostook County, near the Canadian border, will see "their support for their healthcare coverage diminish 70 percent."
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Los Angeles Times
Millions of Californians probably would lose health coverage under the Obamacare replacement bill released by House Republicans this week, experts say. The long-awaited GOP alternative removes the requirement that all Americans sign up for health insurance or pay a penalty, alters the amount of financial assistance offered for plans sold on the marketplaces and bans federal funding for Planned Parenthood. But what probably would affect the greatest number of Californians and raise the toughest questions for the state are proposed cuts to Medicaid, which covers more than a third of California's residents.
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Chicago Tribune
Illinois healthcare leaders spent weeks bracing themselves for the worst as they awaited a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act. This week, that Obamacare replacement bill finally arrived — and it would mean significant changes for more than 356,000 Illinois residents who have coverage through plans purchased on the Affordable Care Act exchange. It would also affect more than 3 million Illinois residents covered by Medicaid, which is also targeted in the proposal.
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The Tennessean
House GOP legislation aimed at revamping the Affordable Care Act would pave the way to an overhaul of Tennessee's Medicaid system and shrink the credits meant to offset health insurance costs for many Volunteer State residents. The American Health Care Act, unveiled by congressional Republicans this week, would retain the basic structure of former President Barack Obama's signature law, though it would rework the ACA's penalty for being uninsured and create the blueprint to transition Medicaid to a per capita system.
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