Who essentially reinforce all of the points made about the Graham-Cassidy bill that we’ve seen before. It’s just significant that they are now being made by every large medical industry association and they’re calling for a bipartisan solution.
This joins the September 21, 2017 statement of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Medicaid Directors (state government staff who administer their state’s Medicaid programs).
Who essential make the points that:
- Medicaid is, on average, 25% of a state’s budget. Basically, the legislation proposes to hand over less money for states to run the Medicaid programs while not making any changes to Medicaid regulations to account for the fact that the state will have less money to run it. This would “constitute the largest intergovernmental transfer of financial risk from the federal government to the states in our country’s history.”
- States being required to have their completely new and innovative (if states are the labs then we are expecting innovation) administration of these block grants in place by 2020 is unreasonable, particularly considering there will be no federal funding to cover the manpower necessary to make it happen.
- Quit rushing it. This bill is crap. If you’re going to do it, do it right and don’t throw the states under the bus.
The following statement was jointly released on September 23, 2017
Hearseeno 