Once Passed, Medicaid Cuts Won’t Be Easily Reversed
Jacob Leibenluft
Despite promises that the emerging Senate health bill will moderate the health coverage cuts in the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Senate not only is retaining the House bill’s fundamental restructuring of the Medicaid program — a “per capita cap” on federal funding — but is deepening the cuts under the per capita cap beginning around 2025.[1] Because the per capita cap wouldn’t take effect until 2020 and the Senate’s further cuts wouldn’t kick in until f