{"id":5679,"date":"2017-01-25T08:50:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2017-01-25T08:50:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T13:50:40","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-block-grants-the-heart-of-gops-medicaid-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5679","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Need to Know About Block Grants \u2014 The Heart of GOP\u2019s Medicaid Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s administration made explicit this weekend its commitment to an old GOP strategy for managing Medicaid, the federal-state insurance plan that covers low-income people \u2014\u00a0turning control of the program to states and capping what the federal government spends on it each year. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/block-grants-medicaid-faq\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=41295182&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz---rRByphYE15LSMxFUyqsSIamhgUpAs3NA2YNbCgxj01H_Zb_du_o35lYceAqsvsjOL2nvkfOat529ji6KRi--vNFc2w&amp;_hsmi=41295182\" target=\"_blank\">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: normal; 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; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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