California Officials: State Will Lose $24 Billion by Decade’s End Under GOP Health Plan

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Under the new bill, federal money for MediCal would be capped either through block grants or fixed per-capita amounts. Illustration courtesy of KQED

By Anna Gorman, KQED News Fix/State of Health
California would lose $24.3 billion in federal funding by 2027 for low-income health coverage under the current Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, according to a new state analysis released Wednesday.

The bill, up for a vote in the House on Thursday, represents a “massive and significant fiscal shift” from the federal to state governments by setting caps on spending, reducing the amount of money available for new enrollees and eliminating other funding for hospitals and Planned Parenthood, the analysis said. The analysis, based on internal cost, utilization and enrollment data, was sent Tuesday to the state’s secretary of Health and Human Services.

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix/State of Health.

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