During a meeting between President Donald Trump and Republican senators at the White House Wednesday, CMS Administrator Seema Verma unveiled a new Medicaid policy created to ease the concerns of moderate senators worried about cuts to the program, according to The Hill.
The proposed policy would allow states to use Medicaid funding to help cover healthcare costs for people who would otherwise have to rely on federal tax credits to purchase private insurance on state exchanges. The proposal is designed to avoid cuts to expanded Medicaid coverage, but it is still tentative and senators are hesitant to comment decisively about it.
"I think it's best to sum it up as: it's complicated. It will have differing impacts depending on where each state is respectively," said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.
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