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Forbes
The number of uninsured will increase by 22 million Americans under the Senate Republican leadership's Better Care Reconciliation Act, which is only slightly better than the U.S. House of Representatives American Health Care Act, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday. "I didn't think it was possible to come up with a worse bill," said Medicaid Health Plans of America CEO Jeff Myers
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The Hill
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) told CNN's Dana Bash that he will vote against a motion to proceed to the Senate's healthcare bill if the vote is held this week. He became the fourth GOP senator to say Monday that he will not vote to move forward the Senate's bill to repeal and replace Obamacare in its current form.
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Kaiser Health News
Congress is moving fast toward repealing the Affordable Care Act, with an eye on revamping Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income people. But most Americans say the program — which Republicans call a "broken system" — is working well on the national level and within their states. That's according to a monthly tracking poll released by the Kaiser Family Foundation. That support, the poll suggests, holds true across the political spectrum, though support was strongest among Democrats.
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ABC News
Somewhere along the way, the Republican crusade to repeal Obamacare also turned into an effort to limit the future growth of Medicaid. That bit of mission creep is complicating prospects for the GOP, and could lead to deadlock. The federal-state program for low-income people has long been stigmatized as substandard. But over time it has grown and changed to become a mainstay for hospitals, nursing homes, insurers, and now drug treatment centers confronting the opioid epidemic. With about 70 million enrolled, Medicaid covers more people than Medicare, from newborns to nursing home residents.
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Kaiser Health News
Having long decried the failings of the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republicans are purporting to fix one of its loopholes with their newly unveiled health plan. The so-called coverage gap left more than 2.5 million people living below the poverty line of $11,880 for an individual ineligible for Medicaid or financial assistance to buy insurance — even as higher earners got subsidy checks to buy theirs. But experts say the fix, which looks fine on paper, is a mirage.
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Chicago Tribune
Many low-income adults across the nation could lose Medicaid expansion coverage under the Senate's Obamacare replacement bill — but in Illinois those losses could come three years earlier because of a state law. About 650,000 Illinois residents could lose their Medicaid expansion coverage in 2021, if the Senate bill becomes law and a state statute, meant to keep Illinois' Medicaid expenses in check, remains in place.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia legislative budget leaders had a quick response to a new healthcare plan proposed by Republicans in the U.S. Senate: Please don't do what you just did. The Republican co-chairmen of the Joint Subcommittee for Health and Human Resources Oversight said Thursday that the Senate's current proposal "fails to address the inequities in the federal funding allocation between states" for the Medicaid program that Virginia has operated in partnership with the federal government for a half-century.
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The Tennessean
The Senate's healthcare proposal repeals taxes, restructures and caps Medicaid funding, while immediately giving state insurance commissioners leeway to change plan benefits. At its core, the proposal works to reduce the federal government's health care expenditures by giving states more autonomy — and thus financial exposure — to craft insurance regulations and how Medicaid works in their states, experts said.
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Modern Healthcare
The Better Care Reconciliation Act, like the American Health Care Act, radically revises Medicaid, but it is closer to the Affordable Care Act on how it approaches subsidies to buy individual insurance. Both the House and Senate bills eliminate taxes that paid the costs to cover more people through Medicaid and to subsidize individual plans. Here are some of the big differences between current law, the House bill and the Senate bill.
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NPR
Medicaid is the government health care program for the poor. That's the shorthand explanation. But Medicaid is so much more than that — which is why it has become the focal point of the battle in Washington to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
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NPR
Rachel Martin talks to Diane Rowland of the Kaiser Family Foundation, about a misconception: If a person on Medicaid gets a job, than their health insurance needs will be taken care of.
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STAT
Leigh Ann Wilson hoped that President Donald Trump would improve a lot of things in her home state of West Virginia, particularly an issue close to her heart: Expanding treatment for people addicted to opioids. Wilson lost her daughter, 21-year-old Taylor, to an opioid overdose last year. Weeks later, she voted for Trump, won over by his pledge to fight the opioid crisis by building a wall to keep out drugs — and by reforming healthcare.
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