GOP Forgot To Repeal Medicaid EHBs In AHCA But Is Fixing The Oversight

By John Wilkerson / March 22, 2017 at 8:29 PM
Republicans inadvertently didn't eliminate essential health benefits for the beneficiaries covered by Medicaid expansion in their updated version of the American Health Care Act, which they released Monday (March 20) , but Energy & Commerce Chair Greg Walden has an amendment to add the repeal back in, a Republican Energy & Commerce spokesperson said. Unlike repealing essential health benefits in the individual market, repealing Medicaid essential health benefits in the reconciliation bill is not controversial among Republicans. Republicans didn't include...


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