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The New York Times
Senate Republicans on Tuesday officially abandoned the latest plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, shelving a showdown vote on the measure and effectively admitting defeat in their last-gasp drive to fulfill a core promise of President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers. The decision came less than 24 hours after a pivotal Republican senator, Susan Collins of Maine, declared her opposition to the repeal proposal, all but ensuring that Republican leaders would be short of the votes they needed.
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Bloomberg
Congress won't reach a deal to fund a public health insurance program for poor children before federal funding expires, lawmakers and staffers told Bloomberg BNA Sept. 26. "The failure to renew this vital program puts millions of children at risk and creates great uncertainty for states, providers, and health plans," Jeff M. Myers, president and CEO of Medicaid Health Plans of America, said in the statement, calling again for a permanent reauthorization of the program. "We are not surprised that they're going to miss the deadline, which is the very reason why we urged them to make funding permanent," Myers said.
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The Hill
The National Governors Association is urging Congress to stabilize the insurance markets and reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Reauthorizing CHIP should be an "urgent priority," calling the possible lapse of funding "unacceptable." The association noted states will soon have to notify families that their children might not be covered anymore.
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The Hill
While Republican leaders in Congress and the White House figure out their next moves on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, it is important to not lose sight of another major program that faces a funding deadline: Sept. 30 is when funds run out on the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). If Congress fails to act by this date, funds that flow from the federal government to the states will eventually dry up, as soon as early 2018, leaving millions of children without health coverage.
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Modern Healthcare
Facing steadily rising costs, Massachusetts has asked for federal permission to cull its Medicaid rolls, curb access to in-home and long-term care supports and limit the number of drugs it must cover. Massachusetts has seen its Medicaid and CHIP population jump more than 30 percent since it expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. All in all, Medicaid covers 1.9 million Massachusetts residents, or one-third of the state's population.
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The Hill
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) is investigating whether certain states are receiving more federal Medicaid dollars than they should, leading to burgeoning costs. Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is making the push one day after the Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill that he cosponsored failed.
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Montana Public Radio
Medicaid expansion saved the Montana Department of Corrections $7.6 million in the fiscal year that ended in July. Between 2001 and 2008, spending on inmate healthcare in Montana grew at the fourth highest rate of any state in the country — by 206 percent per inmate. That's according to the Department of Corrections. And, prior to Medicaid expansion, the department had to cover nearly all of those costs.
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MHPA
The mobile app for MHPA17 will go live on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Stay tuned for details. In the meantime, check out the conference agenda and register at http://www.medicaidconference.com/.
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