Trump admin. announces Medicaid funding overhaul, providing states the option to receive their federal Medicaid funding as a block grant, or a lump sum, to provide coverage.
"Medicaid block grants necessitate cost-cutting measures like restricting enrollment, decreasing provider reimbursement, and limiting eligibility and benefits through managed care," the representatives wrote in the letter, which was organized by Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass."These actions endanger the lives of the most vulnerable patients, the population Medicaid was created to protect.
Each time, experts and health advocates have warned that that form of static funding could cause states to cut health benefits or limit eligibility during periods of economic turmoil. Furthermore, they say, it could lock in inequities in federal payment between states and shift a greater amount of risk to state governments unable to take it on.
In all three states, the initiatives passed by some conservative lawmakers have worked to limit enrollment via work requirements and tightening eligibility requirements.
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