Providers To Hatch: Scrap AHCA Or Protect Against Per-Capita Caps

Providers that care for people on Medicaid are asking Senate Finance Chair Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to make the American Health Care Act's Medicaid provisions more generous or to scrap the House-passed version of the bill entirely. While no group that spoke with Inside Health Policy for this story endorses per-capita caps, some appear willing to accept them -- albeit with tweaks -- as GOP senators continue negotiating an end to both Medicaid expansion and the open-ended financing design of the...