All right. We are going to introduce our last panel of the day that we have saved the medicaid discussion for our last even though as you see in each one of the panels medicaid comes up. It is sort of the elephant in the room in the current debate. Carrie young, our associated editor at cq news for health care, is going to be moderating the panel. We also have diane roland, the executive Vice President of the henry j. Kaiser foundation, meg murray whos the chief executive officer for the association for Community Affiliated plans, jessica shumel senior policy analyst on the center for budget and policy priorities. And brett guthrie, Republican Congressman from kentucky. Welcome. So we are all very interested in medicaid these days including whats going on on the hill. Probably to save time and allow more time for questions well start by going to each panelist to talk about what you see happening with the current attempts to change the aca and get a new bill up there. I think that the m
All right. We are going to introduce our last panel of the day that we have saved the medicaid discussion for our last even though as you see in each one of the panels medicaid comes up. It is sort of the elephant in the room in the current debate. Carrie young, our associated editor at cq news for health care, is going to be moderating the panel. We also have diane roland, the executive Vice President of the henry j. Kaiser foundation, meg murray whos the chief executive officer for the association for Community Affiliated plans, jessica shumel senior policy analyst on the center for budget and policy priorities. And brett guthrie, Republican Congressman from kentucky. Welcome. So we are all very interested in medicaid these days including whats going on on the hill. Probably to save time and allow more time for questions well start by going to each panelist to talk about what you see happening with the current attempts to change the aca and get a new bill up there. I think that the m
More now from the alliance for health reform. This next panel takes a look at the challenges facing medicaid. Theres a discussion on healthcare trends. This is an hour and a half. With the failure to pass the bill in congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid. Some additional states. Many states are talking to cms about what might be possible in way of their talking about waivers, what can be done. So today well talk about our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year. What the aca did, where we are with medicaid. Whats under discussion and were going to talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists, youll notice there is one empty seat and that belongs to trish riley. Unfortunately because of the crazy weather we had d. C. Trishas not going to be able to get into town. So she will not be with us. Fear not, our three other panelists here watch wha
Were going to talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists, youll notice there is one empty seat and that belongs to trish riley. Unfortunately because of the crazy weather we had d. C. Trishas not going to be able to get into town. So she will not be with us. Fear not, our three other panelists here watch whats happening in the states very closely and will be able to give us a full picture of whats happening. So first to my left, we have diane roland, executive Vice President of the Kaiser Family foundation. Diane was also the inaugural chair of mac pac which advised congress on medicaid policy. To her left is josh archambault. He spent time here in d. C. With the heritage foundation. Hes up in massachusetts where he also worked for former governor mitt romney. And at the end of the panel, we have judith solomon, judy is Vice President for Health Policy at the center for budget and policy prio
And others. Take a listen. Let me be clear. President trump and i believe the Senate Health care bill strengthens and secures medicaid for the neediest in our society, and this bill puts this vital American Program on a path to longterm sustainability. Do you agree with Vice President there . Is he telling the truth . Strengthen health care for the neediest . I respectfully disagree. It imposes fundamental sweeping changes in the Medicaid Program and those include very deep cuts. That would affect some of the most Vulnerable People in our society including disabled children, poor seniors. It would affect our rural hospitals and nursing homes, and they would have a very difficult time even staying in existence and serving vulnerable populations. So, no. I see it very differently. You cant take more than 700 billion out of the Medicaid Program and not think that its going to have some kind of affect. Discuss with Ron Brownstein, and john thin gruber, and Stephen Moore is with us. Good to