Trump's entire #Project2025 Policy Agenda is huge
--over 900 pages as I understand it
--but given the nature of this website, I'm going to restrict myself to discussing the #healthcare policy section, which is thankfully "only" 54 pages long.
Since there's so much to wade through here, I'll be breaking this into several individual posts.
First up, according to Edwin Park, Research Professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families,
here's how Project 2025 would impact #MEDICAID:
• It would convert federal Medicaid funding into #BLOCK #GRANTS (a set amount of money which would remain the same regardless of increased healthcare cost growth, enrollment growth, unexpected additional costs from recessions, disasters, another global pandemic, etc.
• It would require #states to pay a much larger share of Medicaid costs
• It would eliminate states ability to use provider #taxes, which states use to pay part of their share
• This in turn would prevent states from being able to access even the already-reduced #federal #revenue
• It would eliminate many Medicaid protections & requirements, including adding coverage time #limits and lifetime benefit #caps
• It would allow states to increase #premiums & cost sharing for enrollees and add them to #children and pregnant women
• It would allow states to drop coverage of #nursing home care and long-term services
• States would no longer have to coverage non-elderly non-#disabled parents
• It would add more red tape & make it more #difficult for people to apply for, enroll in and renew their coverage
• It would let states add work reporting #requirements, which have proven to be a disaster in the handful of states that it's been allowed for to date
• It would push for Medicaid #vouchers for less affordable & far less comprehensive private coverage
• It would remove most federal #oversight of state Medicaid programs...except for #abortion & reproductive healthcare, where it would crack down with #draconian federal requirements including prohibiting Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funding, prohibiting coverage of travel to get an abortion and eliminating Medicaid funding for states which require abortion coverage in private policies*
*Note: As of 2022, that included California, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New York, Oregon and Washington.
Overall, Park estimates that
Project 2025 would slash federal Medicaid funding by more than 50% over the next decade.
https://acasignups.net/24/07/05/lets-take-look-donald-trumps-project2025-medicaid-agenda-shall-we
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