Issue Brief Archive

Proposals in Congress to impose per capita caps on Medicaid would greatly hobble states efforts to provide health care to its low income residents. "Capping Medicaid is the wrong approach, especially considering that states already have solutions to meet the needs of their residents that will actually reduce costs,"…

For more than 50 years, Medicaid has efficiently provided health care to low income individuals and families through a unique federal-state partnership, with the federal government contributing a guaranteed amount of each dollar a state spends on Medicaid. Under the American Health Care Act (AHCA), Republicans propose to terminate…