Dems, Beneficiary Advocates Blast GOP Draft Reconciliation Bill

Medicaid beneficiary advocates and Democratic lawmakers voiced strong opposition to legislation laid out in a leaked Feb. 10 draft of the House Republicans’ plan to overhaul the Affordable Care Act through budget reconciliation. The draft legislation, obtained by Inside Health Policy on Friday (Feb. 24), would as part of the ACA overhaul would revamp traditional Medicaid financing by changing the open-ended federal match into per-capita caps with a limited growth rate and pull back Medicaid expansion. The leaked draft...