Harvey Shows Why Turning Medicaid Into a Block Grant Carries Huge Risks

Route Fifty: Let’s go back in time to March of this year, when the biggest story in the news was the Republican health care bill in Congress.

If that feels like forever ago, here’s a bit of a recap. At that moment in time, the House GOP leadership was tooling around with several iterations of Medicaid reform. The plan was to roll back the Medicaid expansion that the Affordable Care Act had enabled and to revamp the funding mechanism of the federal program that provides health insurance for millions of low-income Americans.

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