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Time to end bad Medicaid policies

Washington Examiner | Sally Pipes
December 22, 2022

Lawmakers in Congress ([link removed]) have unveiled their year-end omnibus $1.7 trillion spending bill. They’re hoping to pass it by the end of the week. The draft text comes after weeks of wrangling over how to fund certain COVID-era healthcare ([link removed]) policies after July, when the public health emergency is finally expected to expire.

Among them is a Medicaid ([link removed]) policy that has bloated the entitlement and spent huge sums on people who should not be eligible for coverage according to the program’s own rules.

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Price Controls, Publicly Funded Insurance Won't Deliver Value

Newsmax | Sally Pipes
December 27, 2022

On Dec. 14, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (cms.gov ([link removed]) ) released their latest estimate of the country’s annual healthcare tab.

For the second straight year, U.S. healthcare spending topped $4 trillion ([link removed]) . In 2021, health spending accounted for more than 18% of U.S. GDP.

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