Earlier this week, The house exceeded the Republican budget resolution. Is a goal Slash for more than $ 2 billion decades From the federal budget, it can lead to important cuts to Medicaid.
It is a Federal Medicaid and State Health Insurance Program for disabled and low-income Americans. Medicare centers & Medicaid services work with state programs to administer Medicaid, which is enrolled More than 72.1 million people.
Medicaid offers advantages of nursing care, personal care services and support, premiums and other costs Cms.
Political health experts said Medicaid provides essential services to weak Americans and some cuts to the program could have a risk of losing medical attention, both by removing coverage or closing centers that pay attention.
“Medicaid Programs This Life Saving Coverage in our country”, Mariana Socal, Health Policy and Management is a professor at the School of School of Hopkins Bloomberg, ABC News said. “Uncertainty about the medicaid program is a big stressor in the lives of these people who depend on the program.”
“I think we all agree to protect the health of weak individuals that must be priority in this country, not seen as a saving option,” he continued. “You can save dollars, but then we are not saving life.”
Medicare and Medicaid Service Office Centers, a part of the Department of Health and Human Services, Woodlawn, MD., December 28, 2010.
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Fewer people with less medicaid or service
To reduce Medicaid costs, one of the proposals played by GOPs involves removing the rates for Medicaid. Underneath Affordable care law Medicaid expansionThe government finances 90% of the costs of newly made under the program.
This can change the government to pay for the same for everyone else in the program, that is About two-thirds of all costs.
In addition, the federal government cannot implement capita scholarships. Today, the federal government comes when the States coincides with – at different levels for different states – without a budget cap.
Per Capita cap established a limit of the federal government how many states can provide states.
“What it means to live within this fixed budget, you should find individuals from program people or cutting the services”, health policy and administrative teacher Penn State College College & Human development, Abc News told him.
Impact on health system
Mark Peterson, UCLA Meyer and Renee Public Public Policy, said the subject is not the cutting of federal expenses, as well as how the states would respond if there was a shortage of funding.
He said Medicaid today would be the highest spending on states, on average, and the federal government funding would be dramatic cutting to meet states.
“If the taxes should be risen significantly, that’s not going to happen, or cut, say,” Peterson said “Peterson ABC news, for example, California, for example, budget fights. So it’s not as if they were sitting in a pile of money ready to deal with. There would be serious budget consequences. “
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Experts say Medicaid cuts would also affect the health system. Medicaid gives Great funding Hospitals, long-term care facilities, nursing houses and special needs of children with special needs.
Shea said an example is that Medicaid pays More than 60% of old residents. If the funds are limited, residents will not have money for nursing care and nursing homeworks that will not receive this income, which will not lead to the closure of the nurses.
Rural residents could receive less attention
Rural Americans would also risk losing services. Shea said that many rural hospitals and community health centers are closed and already open the funding challenges already open.
If Medicaid lost financing, they can have closures, which can remove American rural Americans in essential health services.
“In the rural area, Medicaid coverage is usually a greater proportion of coverage, so it is not common to cover 50% of the rural areas of the rural area,” Medicaid, “he said. “And if this source of income is not in hospitals or nursing homes or doctors in these areas, it is more difficult to survive these businesses.”
“And so we would probably see thousands of nursing houses in rural areas … and you would see hundreds of hospitals close,” he added.
