Would states that expanded Medicaid after Obamacare be able to keep the expansion?
“These are decisions we haven’t made yet,” a panel leader said.
They’re Republicans, considerating details and consequenses isn’t one of their strong suits.
This is why I read TPM.
Details are for losers. Reference-any Trump policy…
Outstanding work, thank you.
Just astounding that Republicans are willing to put so many folks healthcare on the line when none of it will really make any difference to the budget and deficit and although it might put some more money in their pockets they probably don’t even spend all the money they have now.
Put Congress and every Federal employee on the same plan or STFU, hypocrites.
This is nothing more than War on the Poor.
And block grants? State’s will see it as discretionary spending and use to fill holes in their budgets.
And what about all those Walmart employees whose wages qualify them for Medicaid?
According to Florida Congressman Alan Grayson, in many states Walmart employees are the largest group of Medicaid recipients. They are also the single biggest group of food stamp recipients.Feb 16, 2016.
I’ve got a couple of friends who for the first time in their lives have health insurance and proudly voted for trump! Every chance I get I make a snide remark or two about them losing their health care!
You should see the looks on their faces when they realize they voted to take away their health insurance!
“In effect, you’re cost shifting to states, and at some point, if you don’t have enough funding under the block grant, the responsibility falls to the states and the governors are going to have to make some really tough decisions,” said Katherine Hayes, the director of health policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, who was a Republican staffer
Such courageous leaders, these GOP Congresscritters. “Oooh, that’s a tough decision … let’s get that hot potato into somebody else’s hands!”
Excellent work, Ms. Sneed. Thank you.
Hubert Humphrey said that the great moral test of a society is how it treats those at the dawn of light–the children, those in the twilight of life --the elderly and those who through no fault of their own are always in the shadow of light–the sick and disabled.
The Republicans who love to bullshit about their personal relationship with Jesus Christ are saying “Fuck You” to each of those groups.
Most Republicans are unburdened by any concern with people’s actual health, so block granting Medicaid simply becomes a selling job. You bring in Frank Luntz and start lying.
Republican legislators at the state level are trying to explain that this is the quickest way they know to turn statehouses and legislatures over to the democrats…
This is why, under pressure from the usual rightwing loons, they’re probably going to pass a repeal with no replacement at all. It will take a few months for them to knuckle under.
These GOP fuckers are slowly learning the difference between governing and sloganeering. What a pathetic clusterfuck they are!
This is the new federalism. Sort of like the new math. 3 minus 1 happens at the federal level and the states are expected to make it equal 4.
I know that Red States consume more in Federal tax dollars than they supply.
Does anyone know if that’s true for Medicaid as well? If it is, the GOP is in a world of hurt trying this…
There are a few opportunities for Dems in the current climate. Immigration is not one. Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, and Social Security do offer opportunities. The current huge reaction about this temporary hold on immigration is the shiny object of the moment. Meanwhile tectonic shifts are occurring without any attention from activists.
My question exactly. I suspect the blue states will find a way to make it work and take care of their people. The red states like Kansas and Louisiana will just use the money to plug holes created by (not) trickle down and let their people suffer.
Great article but weak headline (5 Points on the GOP’s Push to Change Medicaid As We Know It).
Let’s not buy into the idea that they are just pushing through some “changes” especially when you’re already softening it by adding “as we know it”. This is a fundamental shift that eliminates the system we presently enjoy. More appropriate would be to say it eliminates or does away with “Medicaid As We Know it”.