A ‘Sleeper’ lurking in the GOP’s health-care overhaul
Gershon, Rachel
Gershon, Rachel
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2017-06-26
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One little-discussed aspect of a new GOP health-care bill would significantly change the way state Medicaid programs are funded and could erode coverage nationwide. In Governing, our health policy analyst Rachel Gershon discusses how per capita caps would be a historic change for state Medicaid programs, and likely force hard decisions about who and what to cover.