Trump's HHS pick: Right to Medicaid may not be guaranteed under block grants

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Trump's HHS pick: Right to Medicaid may not be guaranteed under block grants
by Tami Luhby @Luhby January 24, 2017: 8:58 PM ET

President Trump's health secretary pick acknowledged Tuesday that Medicaid may cease to be an entitlement for the nation's low-income residents if Republicans turn it into a block grant, sending a fixed amount of funding to each state.

In a contentious hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Democratic Senator Robert Menendez pressed nominee Tom Price on whether changing Medicaid into a block grant program would mean fewer people would be eligible in the future.

Menendez noted Medicaid is currently an entitlement program, meaning anyone who meets the criteria has the right to be covered.

"When you move to a block grant, do you still have the right?" Menendez asked.

"No," Price said. "I think it would be determined by how that was set up."

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/news/economy/medicaid-trump-block-grant/

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1. Millions of nursing home residents will be dumped on the sidewalks?

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4. Trump wants poor people to die in the gutter like in India.

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2. They Are Going To Collapse The Health Care System.

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3. Trump and the republicans are going to turn America into a hellscape for the poor

and the non rich when they get sick, old or disabled.

The republican reaper is coming folks, good luck.