Trump administration disguises plan to cut poor people's health care

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By Emily Singer -January 30, 2020 4:36 PM

The administration is renaming its efforts to cut Medicaid as 'Healthy Adult Opportunity' grants.

The Trump administration on Thursday announced that it will allow states to accept fixed grant amounts to cover its poorest residents who obtain health care through Medicaid, a move experts say will ultimately lead to fewer insured Americans.

Republicans have long sought to implement what are known as "block grants" for Medicaid, which give states a fixed amount of funds to help cover the costs for residents enrolled in the program, rather than an open-ended funding stream.

In fact, block grants were a big part of Republicans' failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act back in 2017. Many protested the GOP repeal effort because those very block grants would be responsible for kicking millions of people off their health insurance.

However, despite the fact that the public roundly rejected the GOP's block grant proposal, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Seema Verma has been quietly working to offer block grants for more than a year, according to Politico.

https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-administration-medicaid-cuts-block-grants-health-care/

I have a lot of words running through my head on what to call this person.........................that end in itch

[Bayard]

1. More and more....

I feel like I'm living in the book, "Animal Farm". Where the other animals are looking through the house windows and seeing the pigs dressed like humans, walking on their hind legs, and you can't tell the difference between them and the humans.

Repigs...

[Duppers]

2. We do seem to be living in an Orwellian world.

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And our species seems to have split into.

Those are brilliant graphics, Miss Bayard!