Gideon Lukens
@GidLukens
Senior Fellow and Director of Research, Health Policy @CenterOnBudget. Former Dep. Director for Economic Policy at OMB. Music lover. Views expressed are my own.
This effectively repeals Medicaid expansion in only a few years. New analysis here: cbpp.org/research/medic…
News: Sen. Rick Scott amendment lowering federal match for Medicaid expansion has been filed. Would be "grandfathering" in beneficiaries until 2030 at 90 percent match, lower state-specific rate kicks in in 2031. Cost savings of $313 billion full copy: cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6bs…
New Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers confirm what we already knew – the reconciliation bill is getting worse, not better. The Senate bill will cut health care more deeply than the House bill and leave more people uninsured. cbo.gov/publication/61…
The latest Senate Republican plan retains a deeply harmful provision that tramples over state rights’ to make decisions about how to use their own funds to ensure their state residents can access comprehensive health coverage.
Senate Republican leaders appear to be barreling ahead with their harmful reconciliation bill. Reminder that the Republican health agenda would take us backward on covering the uninsured, largely reversing #ACA gains. 👎 (h/t @paulkrugman for the graphic idea)
The Senate is barreling toward a vote on an unfinished bill that wld take away health coverage & food assistance from millions, raise families’ costs, & make ppl in our nation worse off. There’s still time for senators to say no to this bill. My statement: cbpp.org/press/statemen…
As Senate Republican leaders rush their bill to a vote, they are focused on band-aid fixes to clear process hurdles. Instead, they should stop moving forward with harmful legislation that takes health care away from millions of people. 🧵
$1 trillion > $15 billion And a capped fund that Congress could shrink or cannibalize in the future isn’t a substitute for the foundation of rural hospital stability: Medicaid. cbpp.org/blog/tracking-…
SCOOP: The Senate Finance Committee iscirculating a memo that lays out a $15 billion stabilization fund for rural hospitals. The plan was sent around to GOP offices this morning. w/@AndrewDesiderio @LauraEWeiss16
This suggests that Republicans may add yet another deeply harmful health care cut to the Senate bill – a cut that would take health coverage away from even more people, shift massive, unaffordable costs to states, & could even lead some states to end their #Medicaid expansion.
👀 New story: Senate GOP is seriously considering Rick Scott's proposal to lower Medicaid FMAP for new expansion enrollees.... Unclear how much mods will push back. Hospitals are highly alarmed
One small business tax issue is flying too far below the radar so far and may come as a shock to 2.7 small business owners when they see their health insurance premiums soar because the Republican tax bill ignored them: news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-a…
House Republicans passed a bill this morning that fails the people they promised to help. It would raise costs on families across the country, making it harder for them to meet basic needs & weather life’s ups & downs — and give ever larger tax cuts to the wealthiest households.
House Republicans’ latest changes to the already harmful health provisions of their budget reconciliation bill layer on last minute cuts, swifter coverage losses, more cost increases, and restrictions on care.🧵cbpp.org/research/healt…
By deleting a few imp words from the E&C bill, the reconciliation bill the Hse Rules cmte is likely to advance creates an unconscionable decision for states: end health coverage for lawfully residing immigrant kids & pregnant adults or face steep federal Medicaid $ cuts.