The measure retains cuts in Medicaid, the health insurance plan for the poor, disabled and nursing home patients, that moderate Republican senators have fought.
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McConnell’s New AHCA Bill Retains Medicaid Cuts
Posted on 13 July 2017.
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AHCA: War on Poverty Now a War on The Poor
Posted on 03 July 2017.
I was about to turn 17 when President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared a War On Poverty in his State of the Union speech in 1964. Johnson was responding to a national poverty rate at the time of around 19 percent
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Middle Class Would Suffer from Medicaid Nursing Home Cuts
Posted on 30 June 2017.
Medicaid pays for about two-thirds of the 1.4 million elderly people in nursing homes, like Jacobs. It covers 20 percent of all Americans, and 40 percent of poor adults.
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