Medicaid Per-Capita Caps Debate Overshadows CHIP, FQHC Funding

June 23, 2017 at 5:07 PM
Witnesses testifying at a House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing Friday (June 23) asked lawmakers to keep the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and federally qualified health centers (FQHC’s) stable for kids and low-income people as Congress pushes to cap Medicaid. The rescheduled CHIP hearing devolved into a party-line debate on Medicaid per-capita caps, although one moderate Republican, Leonard Lance of New Jersey -- who reminded the witnesses he had voted against the House health care bill -- called for...


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