Azar: Budget Proposes Eliminating Enhanced Medicaid Match

By Chelsea Cirruzzo / February 25, 2020 at 5:08 PM
HHS Secretary Alex Azar confirmed Tuesday at a Senate appropriations health subcommittee that the Trump administration proposed in its fiscal 2021 budget to eliminate the enhanced federal match for states that expanded Medicaid. The budget unveiled in early February would cut nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaid over 10 years and includes a number of conservative policies, including work requirements . The budget documents say that the Medicaid spending “will grow at a more sustainable rate by ending the financial...


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