There are now more than 71 million people on Medicaid and its subsidiary, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Repealing the ACA would have kicked 15.4 million Americans off their Medicaid and CHIP coverage, according to one analysis. They’ll do this primarily by converting it a “block grant” from its current status as an entitlement. Under a block grant, that would no longer be true; the state would get a block of money, and if it runs out, too bad. But we can be sure that every day this administration is in office, it will try to take health coverage away from as many Americans as it can.

Source: Washington Post January 29, 2020 20:10 UTC