By: dfitzgerald
Executive Summary
NHeLP attorneys’ analysis of the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal the Affordable Care and radically cut Medicaid funding explains how California’s vulnerable populations would be harmed by the austere measure. Kim Lewis, Fabiola Carrión, and Abbi Coursolle also note that this bill’s attack on Medicaid expansion is particularly pernicious in that its proposed cuts “punish states like California who expanded Medicaid and gives these dollars to other states who refused to expand their Medicaid programs.” *This piece was updated on Sept. 22 with current information.