{"id":7012,"date":"2017-06-06T10:58:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7012"},"modified":"2017-06-06T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:58:24","slug":"why-is-this-modest-medicaid-reform-so-controversial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7012","title":{"rendered":"Why is this modest Medicaid reform so controversial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Chris Pope for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">R<\/span>eforms to Medicaid proposed in the Republican-led American Health Care Act have provoked a certain degree of hysteria. Politicians, interest groups, and lobbyists have launched epithets at them ranging from \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.aarp.org\/2017\/05\/03\/the-american-health-care-act-makes-unsustainable-cuts-to-medicaid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unsustainable<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/medicaid-per-capita-cap-has-same-damaging-effects-as-block-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">damaging<\/a>\u201d and have warned that the reforms are the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/04\/28\/medicaid-cuts-real-death-panels-column\/100939932\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real death panels<\/a>\u201d and that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/politics\/2017\/05\/04\/elizabeth-warren-gop-health-bill-people-will-die\/GZ0khNWSmJtiAQv2UA9iCP\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">people will die<\/a>.\u201d A recent report from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/effects-of-the-medicaid-per-capita-cap-included-in-the-house-passed-american-health-care-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Brookings Institution<\/a>\u00a0turned up the heat by suggesting that \u201cimplementing a Medicaid per-capita cap during the 2000s would have reduced federal Medicaid funding to more than half of states.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/06\/05\/medicaid-per-capita-cap-reform\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8B455sMO9Z146rTzr-TVHbDsVUOQBETarjTxAxyKU63xYCh59SK87301JXVu7Qi0Gh1LeIvD1uWAGXNoYLslDjgUXB1Q&amp;_hsmi=52774416\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. 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Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Chris Pope for STAT) Reforms to Medicaid proposed in the Republican-led American Health Care Act have provoked a certain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7013,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions\/7013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}