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trump to let states overhaul medicaid for the poor,

By conservatives for limiting spending on, The program, known as a block grant, is favored Medicaid. ... Today's announcement is the cruelest step yet by Trump administration to slash American healthcare and dismantle net programs like Medicaid, said Sen. ..

waiver season – ridenbaugh press/publishing

Instead, agencies, Department of Insurance and Department of Health and Welfare to work to modify the plan approved by voters, Medicaid Expansion. These proposed modifications will need approval of Trump Administration, and they will need to be lawful, that is, follow the law of the..

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majority of republicans favor medicaid overhaul: poll

Trump administration is considering new plans to turn Medicaid into block grant on state-by-state basis. ... Mike Dunleavy, Republican, wrote Trump this year to say he would be interested in receiving Medicaid funds as block grant, and his administration appears to..

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restore sanity to mental health spending

Congress should end Medicaid policy that prevents states from using Medicaid for the sickest mentally ill adults. The Trump administration should stop its Department of Justice and Protection and Advocacy program from pressuring states to empty psychiatric hospitals, nursing..

november

Trump attacks Ryan, says he ‘knows nothing’ about birthright citizenship . ... Moore: Trump administration approves Wisconsin’s Medicaid work requirement waiver . ..

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states spending millions to administer medicaid work requirements

., critics of Trump administration's approval of state-level work requirements for Medicaid recipients... This study confirms that Trump administration is allowing states to waste taxpayer dollars in the pursuit of ideological changes to Medicaid that hurt Americans,..

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u.s. health chief says overdose deaths beginning to level off

A recent Associated Press analysis showed that states that expanded Medicaid are spending their new opioid grant money from Congress more judiciously, going beyond basics like treatment for people in crisis. Trump tried to repeal the Medicaid expansion, but failed. . . Advocates for..

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