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November 17, 2005
The House Reconciliation Bill's Provisions On Medicaid Co-Payments and Premiums: Are They Mild or Harsh?
From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
The Medicaid part of the budget reconciliation bill coming to the House floor (H.R. 4241) makes major changes in the federal standards governing the charges that low-income Medicaid beneficiaries can be required to bear through co-payments and premiums. Some defenders of the House bill have sought to portray these changes in Medicaid rules as mild. They argue that the current requirement, under which beneficiaries may not be required to pay more than $3 for each health care service or medication, has not been changed in a number of years and seem to believe mistakenly that the bill would merely update the $3 charge level by raising it to $5 and then adjusting it for inflation.
Such a portrayal of the co-payment and premium provisions of the House bill, however, is inaccurate.
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Posted on November 17, 2005 10:35 PM
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