Medicaid, GOP and bill
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As late-night negotiations on the House Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill pushed an expected vote to Thursday, long-term care providers are hoping for some kind of Hail Mary.
Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, hospitals checking citizenship status, food assistance cuts and other measures in the budget passed by the U.S. House would rearrange the U.S. social safety
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Republicans in the House are now attempting to enact his vision. Hardliners in fact want deeper and faster cuts to Medicaid and other social programs. Whatever finally makes it through the House then has to pass the Senate, where there are stricter rules about what can or cannot be included in a budget reconciliation bill.
The winds of change are sweeping across the Medicaid landscape — and for those of us working in skilled nursing facilities, standing still is no longer an
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The House proposal would enact Trump's major campaign promises while dramatically changing Medicaid, food benefits, income taxes and border security.
The lawmakers on the joint Medicaid Review Panel focused much of the questioning around what lessons have been learned from the state’s current largest managed care contract — the Idaho Behavioral Health Plan. The $1.4 billion contract with Magellan of Idaho was the largest in state history.
A House-passed reconciliation bill would reduce federal funding to states that provide state-funded health insurance to people in the U.S. illegally, resulting in 1.4 million people losing coverage, according to a preliminary Congressional Budget Office analysis.