The effects of a repeal of ACA

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He wasn't going to deprive people of health care insurance, right? He wasn't going to cut Medicaid, right.. Hahaha.

There's much in health care policy that divides Republicans. But there's one major idea that unites them: block grants for Medicaid. It’s in the budget proposal that House Budget Chair Rep. Tom Price, Trump’s pick to run Health and Human Services, released this year. It was in Trump’s own health care platform during the campaign. And it is what Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway was talking about on television news shows this weekend as the administration’s preferred path forward.

In its simplest form, turning Medicaid into a "block grant" simply means handing control of the program — and the funding for it — over to the states. But in all these plans the details reveal something else, too: a massive cut to Medicaid spending that could throw tens of millions of people off the program. To understand how that works, you need to understand the unusual way that Medicaid works..

Donald Trump’s plan to cut Medicaid spending, explained - Vox

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway confirmed on Sunday that Trump’s proposed Obamacare replacement would convert Medicaid into a block grant program. This would take its administration out of the hands of the federal government and put states in charge, with potentially disastrous consequences. Further details are, presumably, forthcoming.

But in the meantime, there’s plenty of research out there on prior Medicaid block grant proposals. When the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analyzed a 2014 block grant plan crafted by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) (then the chair of the House Budget Committee), it found that would result in a 26 percent cut to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program by 2024. It’s difficult to figure out exactly how many people would lose coverage as a result

Kellyanne Conway just confirmed Trump wants to eliminate health coverage for millions

But of course they'll just lie about the effects, and when the media exposes that, they will just blast the media as liars..