President Donald Trump released his $4.1 trillion budget plan for fiscal year 2018 on Tuesday.
The proposal, which promises to balance the budget in the next decade, includes deep spending cuts to several healthcare programs, including Medicaid.
Here is how five healthcare groups reacted to the budget proposal.
America's Essential Hospitals expressed concern about the Medicaid cuts included in the budget plan.
"Today's budget proposal would harm the people who need help most: low-income working Americans, struggling families, the poor elderly and disabled, and many millions of others. Like the American Health Care Act, which would drain more than $800 billion from Medicaid, this budget's proposal to cut $610 billion from the program demonstrates little regard for people priced out of other coverage options."
Federation of American Hospitals President and CEO Chip Kahn said the budget proposal would make it more difficult for hospitals to provide care.
"The hospitals that Americans depend on need sufficient resources to ensure care. The administration's budget proposal released today would make it harder for hospitals to meet the needs and expectations of patients. Proposed cuts to Medicaid and the social safety net of this magnitude are not reform. We hope the Congress will take a different direction as it progresses through the budgeting process."
Association of American Medical Colleges President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, MD, expressed concern with the budget plan's deep spending cuts.
"The president's proposed cuts in domestic spending for fiscal year 2018 would put national health security at risk. Such drastic reductions to medical research, Medicaid and other programs at the Departments of Health and Human Services and Education would have a devastating impact on the health of all Americans."
340B Health had a mixed reaction to the budget plan.
"The Trump administration said in fiscal year 2018 budget documents today that it will work with Congress to enable federal health officials to issue regulations to improve the 340B drug discount program's integrity and transparency. 340B Health, which represents more than 1,300 hospitals and health systems in the program, supports program integrity and transparency but believes legislation is unnecessary to accomplish those goals."
Alliance for Aging Research President and CEO Susan Peschin said proposals in the budget plan put the health of millions of American at risk.
"The Alliance for Aging Research is deeply concerned about the proposed funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the White House's fiscal year 2018 budget. These extreme cuts — 18 percent at NIH, 31 percent at FDA and 17 percent at CDC — will imperil the health of millions of Americans by delaying medical research and access to life-saving treatments and endangering biomedical security both here and abroad. The 2018 budget further jeopardizes patient safety by eliminating the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and folding AHRQ's responsibilities into the NIH's research portfolio."