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Amongst all the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad 142-pages of the so-called “Better Care Reconciliation Act” (BCRA), I will forgive you if you somehow missed the provision about bridges. Take a look at Section 134, the section that allows states to operate part of their Medicaid programs through…

The proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA), pending in the Senate, would, if enacted, forever compromise Medicaid’s 50-year federal-state partnership. By imposing a per capita cap, the federal government would put a strict upper limit on its Medicaid support, leaving states to cover all costs that exceed the cap.…

Per capita caps are the Trojan horse of Congress’ current “health reform” effort. Cloaked as part of the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it has nothing at all to do with ACA. Rather, it is part of a long-standing attempt to dramatically scale back our leanest,…

President Lyndon Johnson made the case for early childhood health care screening and treatment when he called on Congress to expand Medicaid services for children 40 years ago: “… the early years are the critical years… Our goal must be clear–to give every child the chance to fulfill his…