03 July, 2017
The real problem for the hospitals is that they are on thin margins and the real problem or issue is the day by day increasing the cost of the health care.
The Senate bill originated from a group of 13 male Republican Senators including majority leader Sen.
In CBO's assessment, Medicaid spending under the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 would be 26 percent lower in 2026 than it would be under the agency's extended baseline, and the gap would widen to about 35 percent in 2036 (see figure below).
Toomey said on "Sunday Morning Futures" that the Senate bill must include future adjustments in federal Medicaid spending to avoid a "ballooning" of the deficit.
The Senate health care bill will slash Medicaid.
Better Mental health funding - while neither version is particularly generous in funding mental health, the Senate version does create a $2 billion fund to provide block grants to the states to address mental health, as well as treatment for drug addiction.
Cuts to Medicaid would reach $772 billion by 2026 as the bill caps the program's growth and increase states' financial role.
If the current law is not changed by 2026, there would be 15 million fewer Medicaid enrollees.
It is based on an estimate of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Bad debt is already piling up at hospitals under the current system, Dye said, because patients who opted for low premiums but high-deductible private plans lack the means to pay their deductibles. The answer is Trump promised a tax cut to the wealthy and has no way to pay for it. The governor said he has been communicating his concerns to U.S. Senators Tom Cotton and John Boozman, both Arkansas Republicans. Nearly one-third of the state's population is on Medicaid, including about 400,000 children covered by ARKids, about 300,000 low-income adults covered under the ACA's Medicaid expansion, and tens of thousands of beneficiaries in other Medicaid categories, including disabled and elderly people living in nursing homes or receiving in-home care.
Smaller subsidies than the Affordable Care Act for need-based help to low-income individuals so they can buy insurance. There are several Republican senators who oppose the bill in its current form.
Even the Koch brothers came out against the health care bill, eliminating Republican hopes for a campaign to sway public opinion.
The other senator from Indiana, Republican Todd Young, said Congress has no choice but to replace the Affordable Care Act because it "has failed Hoosiers as prices have skyrocketed, insurers have left the marketplace, leaving severely limited choices and deductibles have risen to a level where some insurance is useless".
