Senate Republicans on Thursday revealed the Better Care Reconciliation Act, their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The bill asks low- and middle-income Americans to spend significantly more for less coverage. The bill would roll back the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of the Medicaid program, which currently covers millions of low-income Americans, […]

Two new CBPP analyses confirm that the House health bill (the American Health Care Act) would effectively end the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) expansion of Medicaid and likely cause the overwhelming majority of those currently covered by the expansion to become uninsured. The first analysis shows that states almost certainly could not afford to continue […]

The American Health Care Act (AHCA) would make it harder for older adults in Floridians to afford the health care they need. Under the AHCA: Older Floridians may lose access to nursing home care, home health care, and other services that help them maintain their independence. Proposed cuts to Medicaid would slash federal funding by […]

Medicaid, the program providing health care to 72 million low-income and disabled people, consumed 29 percent of all state general fund dollars in 2016. That constituted the second largest share of the pie behind elementary, secondary and higher education. A new survey by the National Association of State Budget Officers issued Thursday found that while Medicaid spending […]