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To: koan who wrote (1002092)2/24/2017 10:01:54 PM
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Trump/GOP health plan designed to kill poor Trump voters, poor Clinton voters, poor non-voters & the disabled:

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Medicaid Per Capita Cap Would Shift Costs and Risks to States and Harm Millions of Beneficiaries
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
BY EDWIN PARK

House Republican leaders have announced that they plan to include either a Medicaid “per capita cap” or a Medicaid block grant, or give states a choice between the two, as part of the legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that House committees will consider in March. [1] THIS WOULD SHIFT SIGNIFICANT COSTS AND RISKS TO STATES WHILE HARMING TENS OF MILLIONS OF VULNERABLE LOW-INCOME BENEFICIARIES WHO RELY ON THE PROGRAM.

A Medicaid block grant [2] and a per capita cap are much more alike than different as they would both radically restructure Medicaid’s federal financing system and slash federal Medicaid funding for states. This would shift significant costs and risks to states while harming tens of millions of vulnerable low-income beneficiaries who rely on the program. [3]

Per Capita Cap Would Restructure Medicaid Financing and Shift Costs to States

The federal government now pays a fixed share of states’ Medicaid costs, varying by state but averaging about 64 percent. Previous congressional Republican budget and health plans have proposed converting Medicaid into a block grant or imposing a per capita cap. [4] Both would radically restructure Medicaid’s financing and have similar, deleterious effects on states and beneficiaries. A block grant would cap federal funding for a state’s Medicaid program, with a state responsible for any costs above the block grant amount. A per capita cap would cap federal Medicaid funding per beneficiary. In other words, the federal government would pay its share of a state’s Medicaid costs only up to a fixed amount per beneficiary. The state would be responsible for all costs above that per-beneficiary cap.
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