As Congress and the Trump administration look for ways to pay for continued tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy, "One of their prime targets is Medicaid, which provides health coverage to more than 72 million low-income Americans." - CNN

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Funding cuts, new barriers like 'work requirements' (which do not 'work') and other proposals would be devastating to health care for people with disabilities and low income persons across the country.  

Medicaid (unlike Medicare, which is also under threat) is a federal-state partnership, which is mostly federally funded. Federal cuts could create a $50 Billion hole in State budgets, undermine state agencies, and destabilize provider networks.

Among the changes Congressional leaders have floated:

• Converting Medicaid to a per capita cap.  
• Eliminating the enhanced matching rate for the Medicaid expansion.  
• Restricting state use of provider taxes to finance state Medicaid costs.  
• Lowering the minimum Medicaid matching rate.  
• Eliminating the enhanced matching rate for certain Medicaid administrative costs.  
• Lowering the Medicaid matching rate for the District of Columbia.  
• Eliminating the additional incentive for states to take up the Medicaid expansion.  
• Reducing the matching rate for states covering undocumented immigrants with their own funds.  
• Changing the formula used to calculate Medicaid matching rates.  
• Imposing onerous Medicaid work reporting requirements.  
• Eliminating Medicaid and CHIP eligibility for certain legal immigrants.
• Reducing Medicaid and CHIP eligibility by modifying how the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) is annually adjusted.    
• Modifying “public charge” for certain immigrants (those seeking admission to the United States or adjustment in status to legal permanent residency) by going back to a damaging 2019 proposal.
• Rescinding Medicaid rules around: eligibility and enrollment, access to care, nursing home staffing.  

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