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Price’s Appointment Boosts GOP Plans To Overhaul Medicare And Medicaid

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Privatizing the Medicare program for the elderly and disabled and turning the Medicaid program for the poor back to the states are long-time goals for Republicans in Congress and the White House.

Lo que podría hacer Mike Pence con el Medicaid

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El gobernador de Indiana, Mike Pence, fue uno de los 10 gobernadores republicanos que expandió el Medicaid bajo el Obamacare, pero como compañero de fórmula del ahora presidente electo Donald Trump, está pidiendo la derogación y reemplazo de la ley.

California Braces For Medi-Cal’s Future Under Trump And The GOP

KFF Health News Original

California officials jumped at the chance to cover millions more low-income people by expanding its Medicaid program. Now, health policymakers and advocates fear the Trump administration and a Republican-ruled Congress will roll back the state’s progress.

In Depressed Rural Kentucky, Worries Grow Over Medicaid

KFF Health News Original

Low-income residents in poverty-stricken Clay County worry what will happen to their health care if Gov. Matt Bevin’s ambitions to overhaul the state’s Medicaid program go forward.

Uncertain Fate Of Health Law Giving Health Industry Heartburn

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The effect of “repeal and replace” could have greatest consequences for hospitals. They accepted lower federal funding under the law because their uncompensated care was expected to fall as more people became insured.

Electing To ‘Opt Out’ Of Obamacare

KFF Health News Original

Despite tax penalties, opponents of the nation’s health law are emboldened by President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to scrap it. Others wonder why they should bother signing up.

Podcast: The GOP’s Path To ‘Repeal And Replace’ May Not Be So Easy

KFF Health News Original

KHN’s Julie Rovner and Mary Agnes Carey, The New York Times’ Margot Sanger-Katz and The Lancet’s Richard Lane discuss the future of the Affordable Care Act under GOP control of both the White House and Capitol Hill.

Despite Anger At Health Law’s Mandate, GOP Plans Could Also Have Penalties

KFF Health News Original

President-elect Donald Trump has suggested that he would like to keep the health law’s ban on preexisting conditions. But that only works if insurers can be guaranteed a robust market, so Republicans must figure out a way to coax in healthy customers.

Millones podrían perder el Medicaid bajo el plan de Trump

KFF Health News Original

El mayor riesgo para los beneficiarios del Medicaid proviene de las promesas del presidente electo Donald Trump, y otros republicanos, de revocar la Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible (ACA).