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The Wall Street Journal
As Senate Republicans turn in earnest to writing a healthcare bill, hoping to craft a measure by Congress' August recess, no question looms larger than how they will handle the Medicaid program for low-income Americans. At the center of that debate stands one powerful group: Republican governors. And they are split down the middle.
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The Hill
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Thursday testified that the Trump administration does not believe $1.4 trillion worth of cuts it is proposing for Medicaid would affect children, the disabled or the elderly. Under questioning from Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) at a Senate Budget Committee hearing, Mulvaney argued that the cuts would simply slow the growth of Medicaid spending, not cut the program.
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CNNMoney
Just how much does the Trump administration want to cut Medicaid? No one — including the White House — is really sure. CNNMoney has spent the past two days trying to figure out exactly how much President Donald Trump wants to carve out of Medicaid, which covers more than 70 million low-income children, adults, senior citizens and disabled Americans. Medicaid has long been a target of Republicans. They call for slashing the program in both the healthcare bill that passed the House earlier this month and the president's budget released this week.
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The Hill
Senate Republican staff will be working on a draft version of the Senate's Obamacare repeal-and-replace legislation during the upcoming recess, according to multiple senators. The Senate has a district work period scheduled from May 29 to June 2.
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Politico
A feeling of pessimism is settling over Senate Republicans as they head into a weeklong Memorial Day recess with deeply uncertain prospects for their push to repeal Obamacare. Senators reported that they've made little progress on the party’s most intractable problems this week, such as how to scale back Obamacare's Medicaid expansion and overall Medicaid spending. Republicans are near agreement on making tax credits for low-income, elderly Americans more generous, but that might be the simplest matter at hand.
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Kaiser Health News
Postcards, robocalls and other low-tech outreach tools can be as effective as personalized enrollment assistance at encouraging eligible people to sign up for Medicaid, a new study found. Researchers conducted two randomized, controlled trials in Oregon that evaluated the extent to which people who were potentially eligible for Medicaid signed up for coverage following different types of outreach in 2013.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
When the House passed its healthcare overhaul this month, most Republicans from the Philadelphia area objected to its sharp cuts to Medicaid and the impact they expected on Pennsylvania and New Jersey residents. But Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey doesn't think the measure goes far enough. The fiscal hawk is at the center of the Senate GOP's negotiations on Medicaid, pushing for changes that would squeeze its budget even more by reining in the growth of one of the government's most expensive and politically fraught programs.
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WBAY-TV
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposal making Wisconsin the first state to require drug tests to receive Medicaid health benefits has won approval from the legislature's budget-writing committee. The Joint Finance Committee on Thursday voted to give itself oversight and final approval on Walker's plans to drug-test able-bodied, childless adult Medicaid applicants. There would also be a drug test requirement for food stamp recipients.
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The Plain Dealer
One unlikely group could be affected by the divestments in Medicaid outlined in the American Health Care Act, AHCA, passed by the House. Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. veterans rely on Medicaid either as their primary or secondary source for healthcare coverage and could lose access to care, according to a report by Families USA, a left-leaning healthcare advocacy group.
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The Arizona Republic
If President Donald Trump has his way, hundreds of thousands of Arizona's poor would either lose access to food and healthcare or the state's taxpayers would have to fork over a lot more in taxes. The proposed cutbacks to programs like food stamps, welfare and Medicaid in Trump's proposed federal budget could complicate the tax-cutting agenda of Gov. Doug Ducey, who would be pressed to find significantly more cash to preserve the safety net in Arizona or face the reaction to abandoning the state's high poverty population.
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Urban Institute
Using the 2013-2015 American Community Survey, this brief finds improvements for both parents and children in uninsurance, Medicaid/CHIP participation and the number who are eligible for Medicaid/CHIP but not enrolled.
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