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Bloomberg
The debate over Medicaid's financing may still have long-term effects on the future of managed care and delivery systems, despite the demise March 24 of an Obamacare repeal bill that would have overhauled how the federal health program is funded.
The GOP's proposal would have ended the federal match for the $550 billion safety-net program and instead implemented per-enrollee spending limits, with the option of lump-sum grants to states that would have been locked in for 10 years. The Congressional Budget Office had estimated the original bill would strip $880 billion from Medicaid over the next decade.
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Forbes
More states will pursue expansion of Medicaid health benefits for poor Americans under the Affordable Care Act after Republicans failed to repeal and replace the law. The American Health Care Act, also known as Trumpcare, would've rolled back the ACA's Medicaid expansion and put restrictions on states that tried to expand such coverage. But Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan Friday pulled the ACHA legislation Friday, making, "Obamacare the law of the land," as he said.
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The New York Times
The sudden death of legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act has created an opening for voices from both parties to press for fixes to the acknowledged problems in President Barack Obama's signature health law, as lawmakers and some senior White House officials appealed for bipartisanship. But the White House, still smarting from a disastrous defeat on Friday, appeared uncertain on the path forward. President Donald Trump predicted that "Obamacare will explode" and offered no plan to stop it, but his was not the only voice from the White House.
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The Hill
Key House Republicans on healthcare say they want to find a way to fund Obamacare payments that they previously sued the Obama administration over. The payments, known as cost-sharing reductions, reimburse insurers for providing discounted deductibles for low-income Obamacare enrollees. If the payments were canceled, insurers warn they could pull out of the market because of the hole left in their budgets, causing chaos.
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The New York Times
When it was created more than a half century ago, Medicaid almost escaped notice. Front-page stories hailed the bigger, more controversial part of the law that President Lyndon B. Johnson signed that July day in 1965 — health insurance for elderly people, or Medicare, which the American Medical Association had bitterly denounced as socialized medicine. The New York Times did not even mention Medicaid, conceived as a small program to cover poor people's medical bills.
But over the past five decades, Medicaid has surpassed Medicare in the number of Americans it covers. It has grown gradually into a behemoth that provides for the medical needs of one in five Americans — 74 million people — starting for many in the womb, and for others, ending only when they go to their graves.
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The Columbus Dispatch
Ohio Gov. John Kasich continues to call on "reasonable" Republicans and Democrats to unite and craft a bipartisan fix for Obamacare that preserves expanded Medicaid coverage for the drug-addicted and mentally ill. He's rather blunt about it: "Let's grow up, and let's serve Americans."
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The Washington Post
Days after the failure of the Republican health bill in Washington, lawmakers in deep-red Kansas voted to participate in a key part of the law it was meant to replace, known as Obamacare. The Kansas state Senate voted, 25-14, Tuesday to expand Medicaid — the state-federal program for the poor — extending eligibility to about 150,000 additional low-income people. The measure, which passed the House last week, succeeded with the support of all the Democrats in the legislature as well as a number of newly elected moderate Republicans who campaigned on a promise to broaden the program.
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