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The Hill
GOP moderates in the Senate are open to ending federal funding for Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, but want a longer deadline for ending the additional funding than their leadership has proposed. Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) have proposed a seven-year phase-out of federal funding for the Medicaid expansion, beginning in 2020 and ending in 2027.
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The Hill
Senate Republicans are paving the way for legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) fast-tracked the House bill on Thursday, placing it on the Senate calendar and allowing it — as had been expected — to skip over the committee process.
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The New York Times
Senate Republicans are closing in on a bill to repeal President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, diverging from the House on pre-existing medical conditions and maintaining federal subsidies that proponents see as essential to stabilizing insurance markets around the country. The changes appear largely designed to appeal to Republican senators who hail from states where the Affordable Care Act is popular and who were critical of the House bill, which would eliminate insurance for millions of Americans covered under the current law, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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Kaiser Health News
Rural America carried President Donald Trump to his election night upset last November. Trump Country it may be, but rural counties and small towns also make up Medicaid Country — those parts of the nation whose low-income children and families are most dependent on the federal-state health insurance program, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Kaiser Health News
Evan Nodvin, who has Down syndrome, can live independently because of services covered in Georgia under Medicaid, the government health insurance for people with disabilities and the poor. According to the Georgia Department of Community Health, the state spends about 6 percent of its Medicaid budget on services for people with developmental disabilities. When Congress started to talk about making big changes to Medicaid in the healthcare bill in March, Nodvin went to Washington, D.C., with a group of advocates to lobby. He read a speech there, which he recited in his living room.
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Chicago Tribune
Wisconsin submitted a federal request Wednesday to become the first state in the country to drug test applicants for Medicaid health benefits. Republican Gov. Scott Walker expects President Donald Trump's administration to approve the waiver, which would also impose new requirements on able-bodied, childless adults receiving Medicaid in the state. The request comes as Walker, a one-time GOP presidential candidate, prepares for a likely re-election bid.
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KCUR-FM
A bill to replace funding for Medicaid and the Kansas mental health system lost to budget-balancing cuts last year is headed to Gov. Sam Brownback. Senate substitute for House Bill 2079 would increase a fee that health maintenance organizations, or HMOs, pay to do business in Kansas from 3.31 percent to 5.77 percent. HMOs are a type of health insurance that typically has lower premiums but only covers care within a network of doctors and hospitals.
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The Denver Post
Colorado could be on the hook for spending close to $700 million more per year by 2023 if the federal government does away with its enhanced contribution to the Medicaid expansion, according to a new report released Tuesday.
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Missoulian
Travis Hoffman wants Montana Sen. Steve Daines to know that any cuts to Medicaid could mean that he can't continue to be a taxpaying, working citizen. Hoffman, the advocacy coordinator at Summit Independent Living in Missoula, Montana, lost the use of his legs and other motor functions in a car accident in 1999.
After the crash, the government insurance program Medicaid paid for nearly $1 million worth of treatment, and now the program pays for an in-home personal attendant since he can't get out of bed, dress himself or shower without help. Essentially, without Medicaid, Hoffman couldn't get in his wheelchair to get to work to earn a paycheck and pay income taxes. On Tuesday, Hoffman joined three dozen other protesters in front of Daines' downtown Missoula office for a "Save Medicaid and Die-In" rally, conducted in concert with other events around the country and in Washington, D.C.
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Kaiser Health News
As a drug salesman, Mike Courtney worked hard to make health care expensive. He wined and dined doctors, golfed with them and bought lunch for their entire staffs — all to promote pills often costing thousands of dollars a year. Now he's on a different mission. When Courtney calls on doctors these days, he champions generic drugs that frequently cost pennies and work just as well as the kinds of pricey brands he used to push.
Instead of big pharma, he works for Capital District Physicians' Health Plan (CDPHP), an Albany, New York, insurer. Instead of maximizing pill profits, his job is to save millions of dollars by educating doctors about expensive prescriptions and the stratagems used to sell them.
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