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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 05:24 AM Jan 2019

Hospitals 'furious' at Trump's Medicaid block grant proposal

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1827149

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The Trump administration is reportedly finalizing a proposal to begin dismantling Medicaid, bypassing Congress in the process. The administration is considering fulfilling the long-held Republican dream of turning the program into a block grant through a waiver process, which would allow states to forego the normal funding stream for what the administration calls "flexibilty."

The nation's hospitals call it bullshit. If states decide to use the block grants, federal funding for the program will be capped, and states would then be responsible for filling healthcare needs beyond that cap, either by kicking people out of the program, or reducing payments to the hospitals that care for the uninsured and to nursing homes.

Chip Kahn, CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, told Modern Healthcare that he is worried about what this would mean for hospitals and access to coverage, and he also "questioned whether the [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] can legally allow these waivers."

His organization isn't the only one "furious" at the proposal. "We have long voiced concerns about how block granting Medicaid could ultimately result in losses of coverage and negatively impact access to quality care," said Ashley Thompson, senior vice president of public policy analysis at the American Hospital Association. That's one of the reason the AHA, along with the other hospital groups, strenuously opposed a block-grant proposal from South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy offered up as Obamacare repeal. The AHA officially opposed the proposal, telling congressional leaders that it would have "serious negative consequences for communities across America" unless alternative coverage for low-income Americans was guaranteed.

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Hospitals 'furious' at Trump's Medicaid block grant proposal (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2019 OP
more money to the oligarchs Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #1
Attention deplorables living in the sticks dalton99a Jan 2019 #2
As a nurse who has worked in these rural hospitals Horse with no Name Jan 2019 #4
Hospitals are already eating enormous costs ismnotwasm Jan 2019 #3
K&R ck4829 Jan 2019 #5
We desperately need area51 Jan 2019 #6
We have ONE hospital to serve the Interior of Alaska, akraven Jan 2019 #7

Horse with no Name

(33,956 posts)
4. As a nurse who has worked in these rural hospitals
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:56 AM
Jan 2019

I can count on one hand in 3 different hospitals how many of the staff votes non-republican and the majority resent Medicaid.
I have been known to say that a payor is a payor and without payors, we don’t get paid.
Sounds like many are going to have their dystopian dream.

ismnotwasm

(41,921 posts)
3. Hospitals are already eating enormous costs
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:38 AM
Jan 2019

Between HCPS and bundling, medical coding and the underinsured, they are scrambling. Hospitals can’t afford this.

akraven

(1,975 posts)
7. We have ONE hospital to serve the Interior of Alaska,
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 03:12 PM
Jan 2019

including Ft. Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base.

Thanks, sTrump.

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