“a phase-out of the Medicaid expansion program, which is wound down starting in 2020…”
Till after the coming mid-terms and after the next presidential cycle. Don’t get people upset just yet. After the 2020 census make sure that as many state houses as possible are under GOP control, then begin redrawing those precincts. See if they can not just maintain but expand the gerrymandering and control the Federal House for another decade to come.
Any changes will have longish fuse…
“The only way to put Medicaid on a truly sustainable budget is to ensure it cannot grow faster than the economy as a whole.”
Or you could try single payer and reduce overall costs for everyone. But then your head might explode.
Portman and moderates in the Senate do know don’t they that in conference everything they wanted will be thrown out the window, door whatever. Conservatives will get the crapcare bill they want. Moderates who go along with repealing the ACA will get the backlash. But they should get the backlash because instead of standing up for Americans they decided to cave for their rich donors.
How many moderate Democrats are going to vote for this?
Obamacare gave Medicaid to healthy, able-bodied adults & created a financial incentive for states to cover them. awful policy.
Healthy, able-bodied adults, by definition, do not add to health insurance costs. Could this be a red herring and they are actually trying to get rid of sick people? HMMM…
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What an absolute piece of shit is this twit Dan Holler.
Probably about as many as voted to repeal Dodd-Frank over in the House yesterday. (I hope.)
Not one. The Republicans sure have made it easy for the Democrats to hold their coalition together.
They originally scheduled a vote for an evening session but by that time members were in the basement sleeping in their boxes of dirt.
Whatever they do and whatever way the wind blows them, it won’t be good.
I smell the political equivalent of “controlled flight into terrain”.
Every year.
As long as the GOTP relies on reconciliation.
Lather, rinse, repeat 
Internal fights are always staged in this GOP.
The most visible is the KimmelTest. Senator Cassidy created the Cassidy-Collins plan which he explained on national TV as passing the KimmelTest. This week he’s selling out Americans by claiming the Senate plan meets his KimmelTest. Be clear. He would claim this no matter what shyte emerged from the Senate.
The medicaid cuts are a necessary part of the bill, because without them you don’t get the tax cuts (either the ones in this bill or the additional ones that are the reason this has to be passed so quickly without scrutiny). And without the tax cuts, the GOP will be throwing 24 million people out of the healthcare system without making their rich donors richer. So everybody will be upset with them.
The only way to put Medicaid on a truly sustainable budget is to ensure it cannot grow faster than the economy as a whole.
If you don’t have any provision for actually containing costs, then you haven’t put Medicaid on a “truly sustainable budget.” All you’ve done is move the responsibility elsewhere. The costs are still there.
Obamacare gave Medicaid to healthy, able-bodied adults
And this is just stupid. “Healthy, able-bodied adults” don’t need insurance? Seriously? What happens if something happens such that they are no longer healthy, able-bodied adults?
Finally, An NYT opinion piece noting that MOST middle class folks end up on Medicaid after having lived through any remaining assets they have, home included, and eliminated any inheritance for their children (last I dealt with it, $3,000 could be retained for burial costs). This piece and the comments that elaborate its points are must reading, imho. And its arguments and narratives need to be broadcast loud and wide across the land.enter link description here