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Politico
Medicaid may be the next "third rail" in American politics. Resistance to cutting the healthcare program for the poor has emerged as a big stumbling block to Obamacare repeal, and Republicans touch it at their political peril. The repeal efforts in Congress actually aimed to do more than repeal Obamacare. The House-passed bill, H.R. 1628 (115), and the Senate counterpart that collapsed Monday called for the biggest changes and deepest cuts to Medicaid since its creation as part of the Great Society programs in 1965.
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CBS News
Twenty-two million more people would become uninsured over the next decade under the Senate Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Thursday morning.The bill is not much different from the original: It would still end Obamacare's penalties for people who don't buy insurance, cut back an expansion of Medicaid and include further cuts to the entitlement program.
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The Hill
Senate Republican leaders are desperately searching for the 50 votes they need to open a debate on Obamacare repeal-and-replace legislation after a Wednesday scolding at the White House from President Donald Trump. Leaders have reopened negotiations on their previous bill, reversing course from their plans to move to a vote on a straight repeal of Obamacare.
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The Hill
Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told moderate GOP senators at a White House meeting Wednesday that the administration is willing to hammer out a new Medicaid proposal. The latest proposal, which senators are calling a "Medicaid wrap-around," would give states more flexibility to use Medicaid funding to cover the healthcare expenses of people outside the program who face high healthcare costs.
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The Hill
In a bold move to revive their healthcare bill, Senate Republican leaders are getting ready to propose giving $200 billion in assistance to states that expanded Medicaid, according to a person familiar with internal Senate negotiations. The huge sum would be funded by leaving in place Obamacare's net investment income tax and its Medicare surtax on wealthy earners, according to the source briefed on the proposal.
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Kaiser Health News
Contradicting the opinion of most policy experts, a draft report from the Trump administration forecasts better enrollment and lower premiums for everyone who buys their own health insurance if a controversial amendment proposed by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas were to become law. The draft surfaced just as Republican senators were lunching with President Donald Trump on Wednesday to talk about the next steps in the healthcare debate.
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Kaiser Health News
The U.S. Senate's plan to replace Obamacare, now in limbo, would cut funding for Medicaid and other health insurance subsidies by more than $1 billion a year within five years. That has many lawmakers, doctors, hospitals and patients across Massachusetts in a state of alarm.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Congressional Republicans' plans to repeal and replace — or even just repeal — Obamacare may be on hold for now, but four Pennsylvania mothers of chronically ill and seriously disabled children said Tuesday they can't afford to let up on their efforts to preserve the public program that pays for their children's care.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
As patients and partisans of all stripes take a deep breath after the latest Republican effort to dismantle Obamacare, they might consider how trying to save healthcare dollars can have unintended consequences.
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Kaiser Health News
House Democrats are calling foul on Republican assertions that cuts to a little-known discount drug program will eventually reduce skyrocketing drug prices. At a hearing Tuesday, Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colorado) said high drug prices should be investigated separately from the focus on oversight of the drug discount program, known as 340B.
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