1. What agency is mentioned as developing a plan for Trump to turn Medicaid into block grants?
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
2. How would Medicaid change if the program was changed to a block grant style implementation?
Under block grants, states would receive a set amount of federal funding, instead of the open-ended funding commitment they currently receive from the feds. It would be underfunded.
3. What was the effect of some states adding work requirements to receiving Medicaid benefits?
thousands of people in the states implementing them have lost coverage
4. Which president's administration was responsible for the creation of the Medicaid program?
LBJ
5. How many people are insured by the Medicaid program in the United States?
75 million Americans get coverage under the program
6. What was the effect of the Affordable Care Act on the Medicaid program?
the Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid and fundamentally overhauled its financing with a federal spending cap.
7. What types of Medicaid recipients would be exempt from work requirements?
children, elderly, disabled, or pregnant
8. What groups of people were originally entitled to Medicaid benefits?
Childless adults
9. What were the requirements to get Medicaid benefits after Obamacare?
Anybody with an income in or near poverty ($27,000 and below for a family of three) would be eligible for Medicaid.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
2. How would Medicaid change if the program was changed to a block grant style implementation?
Under block grants, states would receive a set amount of federal funding, instead of the open-ended funding commitment they currently receive from the feds. It would be underfunded.
3. What was the effect of some states adding work requirements to receiving Medicaid benefits?
thousands of people in the states implementing them have lost coverage
4. Which president's administration was responsible for the creation of the Medicaid program?
LBJ
5. How many people are insured by the Medicaid program in the United States?
75 million Americans get coverage under the program
6. What was the effect of the Affordable Care Act on the Medicaid program?
the Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid and fundamentally overhauled its financing with a federal spending cap.
7. What types of Medicaid recipients would be exempt from work requirements?
children, elderly, disabled, or pregnant
8. What groups of people were originally entitled to Medicaid benefits?
Childless adults
9. What were the requirements to get Medicaid benefits after Obamacare?
Anybody with an income in or near poverty ($27,000 and below for a family of three) would be eligible for Medicaid.
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