{"id":10344,"date":"2018-05-08T08:11:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10344"},"modified":"2018-05-08T08:11:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:11:56","slug":"federal-officials-say-no-go-to-lifetime-limits-on-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10344","title":{"rendered":"Federal Officials Say No-Go To Lifetime Limits On Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s promise of unprecedented flexibility to states in running their Medicaid programs hit its limit Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services\u00a0rejected a proposal\u00a0from Kansas to place a three-year lifetime cap on some adult Medicaid enrollees. Since Medicaid began in 1965, no state has restricted how long beneficiaries could remain in the entitlement program. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/federal-officials-say-no-go-to-lifetime-limits-on-medicaid\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=62745353&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9O8nNrVJ3ux7v4FXXFlY7iAMvkuhnI_6sQ04SXpy50i0Ul-RNyVNne0XFVS8eeJ-sE3OEXF-9Z8nLZ2Hv07eZ0rh9NZw&amp;_hsmi=62745353\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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