Give the Trump administration credit: Having failed to get congressional authorization to decimate the Medicaid safety net for the poor, it is now trying to circumvent Congress in its dogged attempt to cut the lifeline that 62 percent of nursing home residents, for example, depend upon.
The administration would reportedly do this by unilaterally imposing “block grants” or “caps” upon state Medicaid spending. This would upend the traditional formula where the federal government matches state spending on no less than a dollar-for-dollar basis, based upon a state’s per capita personal income relative to the national average. There are 14 states, including ours, where the federal government pays only 50 percent of the overall Medicaid cost of nursing home care, while in Mississippi it pays the most: 76.39 percent of the cost.
via Concord Monitor.
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