GOP Budget Would Leave Up To 44 Million More Low-Income Americans Uninsured:

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Even Obama's new plan only picks up a small amount of the uninsured.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/10/gop-budget-uninsured_n_860032.html


GOP Budget Would Leave Up To 44 Million More Low-Income Americans Uninsured: Report
Gop Budget Uninsured

RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR 05/10/11 06:01 PM ET AP


The analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Urban Institute concluded that Medicaid's role as the nation's safety net health care program would be "significantly compromised ... with no obvious alternative to take its place," if the GOP budget is adopted.

The plan passed by House Republicans last month on a party-line vote calls for sweeping health care changes, potentially even more significant than President Barack Obama's insurance overhaul. So far, most of the attention has gone to the Republican proposal to convert Medicare into a voucher-like system for future retirees. But Medicaid would also be transformed.
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A spokesman for the author of the GOP budget, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, challenged the study's assumptions. The Republican plan will allow Medicaid to grow "at a sustainable rate, so that the health care safety net will be there for those that need it most," said Conor Sweeney. Obama's overhaul will force millions more into a broken system, relegating vulnerable people to second-class care, he added.....................................

Under current laws, Medicaid is expected to cover 76 million people in 2021, the end of the ten-year estimating window used in federal budgeting. Of those, some 17 million would gain coverage under Obama's expansion...................

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