Trump blocked push for limited Medicaid expansion

[DonViejo]

Source: Axios



Sam Baker1 hour ago

President Trump rejected a push to let states adopt a scaled-down version of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, The New York Times reports.

Why it matters: Senior health officials pushed the partial expansion as a middle ground for red states, but it was ultimately seen as too pro-ACA, the Times reports. Without that option, though, some conservative states are poised to adopt the full Medicaid expansion this fall.

The ACA’s Medicaid expansion covers everyone with an income up to 138% of the poverty line, in states that adopt it.

But some Republican-led states want to adopt a partial expansion, covering people only up to the poverty line. They would need the administration‘s OK to modify the terms that way.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-medicaid-expansion-2018-midterm-elections-dd503843-621c-4fd8-b7b9-4bc02541e566.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Trump is constipation of the body politic

[turbinetree]

2. What a sick fucker...........he gets his tax payer funded health care, but fuck everyone else.....

he really is a fucking traitor....................


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.......................vote

[dalton99a]

3. The traitor is hell-bent on killing millions of Americans by taking away their healthcare.

[duforsure]

4. Again the opposite of what he said,

And he wants health care AND Social Security to be destroyed , and rob from the SS fund. While he's giving even more huge tax windfalls to the super wealthy, again. The republicans will help him if they are re-elected to do this to us. Vote!