Some Programs Entirely Eliminated Under Trump Budget Proposal

Many highly criticize President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget, for a variety of reasons. Many are opining that the projected spending cuts across the government would be dramatic, including cuts to “Obamacare” outlays by $1.25 trillion, through the American Health Care Act’s program amendments. Health care is implicated further, as the proposed budget would cut Medicaid spending by $610 billion and cut the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) by $5.8 billion, while extending it through 2019.
Medicaid would be cut even beyond proposed reductions in the AHCA bill, by increasing the stringency of per capita cap and block grant reductions. CHIP funding would be cut by eliminating the twenty-three percent increased federal funding match added by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and by no longer providing federal CHIP dollars for children from families with incomes above 250% of the federal poverty level.
Health and Human Services
The HHS budget promises a lot, including funding efficient operations and necessary activities to provide a stable transition from the ACA to a “patient-centered health care system.” The budget allows for $471 million for the ACA exchanges in 2017, $453 million of which is to go to program operations such as eligibility, call center operations, and information technology. The 2018 HHS budget projects $28 million in expenditures for rate review grants and $59 million in state exchange grants that remains unspent from previous appropriat...

Source: Policy and Medicine - July 11, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs