Republicans Draft Bill to Cut Medicaid Rolls

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: wsj

House and Senate Republicans plan to unveil legislation Tuesday that would allow states to cut Medicaid enrollment, the latest effort to contain the swelling costs for the health care program for the poor.

The bill would lift a law that says states can’t cut Medicaid spending without losing matching money from Washington to run the program. A dozen Republicans, led by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) and Rep. Phil Gingrey (R., Ga.), have signed on. (Click here for the Republicans’ summary of the legislation.)

The recent debate over how to lower Medicaid costs has centered on a proposal by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), who wants to convert Medicaid into a grant program. The federal government would give states lump sums to run the program with fewer rules on how they can spend it. But privately, most Republicans — and Democrats — agree such a change is not likely to get put into law. So they’re focusing on less drastic measures that would allow states to trim their Medicaid budgets.

Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/05/03/republicans-draft-bill-to-cut-medicaid-rolls/?mod=e2tw

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Guaranteed: Not drafted by R's

bookmark it

[freshwest]

9. Didn't get that one.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

13. Think insurance company lawyers. nt

[freshwest]

14. Now I got ya. Thanks.

[DCKit]

2. Who'd a thought? There IS a death panel, and they're all Republicons. nt

[liberal N proud]

3. Who do you think thought up the idea

They were just trying to project their own values on the health care law to kill it. They always project their "family values" on their opponents.





ie: family values is republican for lack there of.

[DCKit]

4. Even more scary, they "think" all us libruls are sexually depraved.

With their proven mastery of projection, there's no way I'd leave children or farm animals unsecured or unsupervised in a red district. Especially when the "pros" with DC experience might be coming through.

[freshwest]

10. Well, that Pro-Life stance only goes so far, you know. The poor have passed their expiration date...

[abelenkpe]

5. Death Panel for the poor.

Lump sums and fewer rules on how they spend it. Cause don'tcha know it wasn't lack of oversight that led to economic mess we're all in. :crazy:

[SoapBox]

6. Where are the freak'n JOBS?

Thanks for nothing RushThugs and T.HaterBaggers.

I say...recall ALL of them...vote them OUT of office.

Add to that nationwide protests about these creeps.

Why do they hate America and Americans?

[and-justice-for-all]

7. I look forward to that piece of shit hitting the cutting floor

of the Senate.

[freshwest]

11. Which is struggling to maintain an official Democratic majority, so I'm tossing in a few bucks.

[aquart]

8. So who do they plan to kill? More transplant patients?

[StarsInHerHair]

12. so whole-sale prices on meds as a way to lower prices is STILL off the table

what garbage these people are, they projected again onto Dems, since THEY are out to "kill Grandma".