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With 2017 transitioning to 2018, MHPA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. Tuesday's edition gave readers a glance at how MHPA has defended Medicaid in the news this year. Here are some additional articles that received a lot of attention from you, our valued readers. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 2.
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Detroit Free Press
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday finally responded to a series of pointed questions from a U.S. senator regarding Medicaid expansion in Michigan, defending the program and saying the senator painted an inaccurate picture of its costs. Snyder wrote a letter to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) telling he chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that he "respectfully disagrees that the approach used in your letter to calculate the growth in expenditures is an accurate portrayal of this successful program."
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Fierce Healthcare
The Trump administration has unveiled a plan to "turn the page" on the Medicaid program, an effort that will include revamping the waiver process, encouraging work requirements for beneficiaries and creating quality scorecards.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Seema Verma outlined the plan at the National Association of Medicaid Directors' fall conference in Arlington, Virginia.
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The Hill
Republican governors are working with the Trump administration to do something Congress couldn't accomplish — fundamentally alter their state Medicaid programs. At least six states with GOP governors — Arkansas, Kentucky, Arizona, Maine, Wisconsin and Indiana — have already drafted plans meant to introduce new rules people would have to meet to be eligible for Medicaid, which provides healthcare to low-income Americans and those with certain disabilities.
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The Post and Courier
When Maine voters took to the polls Nov. 7, nearly 60 percent bucked the longstanding position of their conservative governor and voted to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act. South Carolina now finds itself among a dwindling minority of states that continue to refuse billions of federal dollars for the purpose of growing the low-income health insurance program. But Maine's vote hasn't changed the opinion of Gov. Henry McMaster, who, like his predecessor Nikki Haley, vocally opposes Obamacare. His office offered a prepared statement about McMaster's unchanged position.
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Politico
The House passed legislation Thursday to repeal and replace Obamacare, as Republicans came closer than ever to realizing their seven-year pledge to overturn the Democratic law and remake health insurance for millions of Americans. The plan, the American Health Care Act, was approved mostly along partisan lines, 217-213, with just one vote to spare. No Democrats backed the bill, and a slew of Republicans opposed it as well.
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Health Affairs
To make the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion more politically palatable, a number of conservative states have used 1115 Medicaid demonstration waivers to implement personal responsibility focused policies. These waivers have been used, for example, to charge Medicaid recipients premiums and to institute cost sharing above statutory limits.
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The Hill
Independence Day, a day to remember and celebrate our nation's quest for — and ultimately our achievement of — freedom from a monarch who had lost touch with the goals and aspirations of those who settled here, has less meaning for those struggling for their survival in today's America. The 29 million Americans who lack health insurance of any kind surely do not have independence, as they live in fear of illness or injury for which they have no coverage. Should they fall ill, they will not have the same ability as insured Americans to seek out treatment, because their options for coverage will be limited.
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Kaiser Health News
House Republicans unveiled their much anticipated health law replacement plan Monday, slashing the law's Medicaid expansion and scrapping the requirement that individuals purchase coverage or pay a fine. But they opted to continue providing tax credits to encourage consumers to purchase coverage, although they would configure the program much differently than the current law.
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The Hill
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is optimistic that the newest Obamacare repeal bill can gain enough traction among Senate lawmakers to pass in the upper chamber. "We're certainly getting close [to 51 votes]," Johnson said recently on CNN's "New Day."
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The Hill
The national opioid crisis is becoming a political hurdle for Senate Republicans negotiating an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill that could end the healthcare law's expansion of Medicaid. Legislation approved by the House would cut off Medicaid expansion in 2020, ending payouts to states and reducing federal funding to the program by about $880 billion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
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