Intra-GOP Fight Ramps Up Over Medicaid Cuts In Obamacare Repeal

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In a sign that Senate Republicans are close to—but not quite at—a deal to bring an Obamacare repeal bill to a vote, the fault lines within the GOP over efforts to impose major cuts to Medicaid are becoming publicly exposed, in what have been otherwise closely guarded negotiations.

One front of the battle is whether to soften a phase-out of the Medicaid expansion program, which is wound down starting in 2020 in the already-passed House repeal legislation. Another front of the battle is how Republicans craft their longer-term overhaul of the traditional Medicaid program. The GOP intends to transform Medicaid into a “per capita cap” system, in which states receive a set amount of federal funding per beneficiary, rather than an unlimited match rate from the feds. There is disagreement, however, over how they design the caps.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/medicaid-cuts-fights-obamacare-repeal-gop-senate


I have added an exchange that Claire McCaskill had with the one of the chief doofus's (Orring Hatch) running the senate show to create
death panels and she asked some questions , very good questions


http://crooksandliars.com/2017/06/ad-will-kill-trumpcare-and-rightly-so

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