Mehmet OZ, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, should speak for lunch with Republican senators on Tuesday to reform Medicaid, according to a GOP source familiar with the schedule.
It is expected that OZ speaks in detail about the need to protect the program for families with low incomes, older and disabled people and the administration as current abuse of the program, such as: B. People in the country without permission who receive Medicaid services.
OZ will speak to the GOP lawyers one day after the Senate Finance Committee Unveiled proposed changes To Medicaid, that would go Beyond the programs of the program Last month at the house.
The legislation of the Senate would limit the tax service provider’s tax service providers to 3.5 percent in 2031 and limit a popular strategy used by many states to draw more Medicaid financial means for the states. The upper limit that would apply to states that have expanded the Medicaid cover in accordance with the Affordable Care Act would be brought into the phase from 2027.
All states, with the exception of Alaska Finance, part of their share of Medicaid Finance by taxes from the health service provider, and 39 countries have three or more such taxes, according to KFF, a research group for health policy.
Fiscal conservative such as Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) Demanded that Medicaid covers the groups in need of protection, for which it was originally intended when he was issued in 1965.
Scott notes that Medicaid from President Trump spent $ 56.1 billion of $ 56.1 billion of $ 56.1 billion in 2024 in 2024, including $ 13.5 billion in California and $ 6.4 billion in New York.
“We have to stop the system to play the system to give illegal aliens and people who do not want to work.
Critics of the changes to the program, which were passed by the house and collected from the Senate Finance Committee, warn that the cuts of federal financing will affect rural hospitals.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) Completed the invoice for slowing down the exit of the subsidies for renewable energies and average compared to the invoice that was adapted by house.
“It sounds like we keep it Bid Subventions “Green New Deal” and we will pay for it by developing rural hospitals. That will be a serious argument in Missouri, ”he said.
He said that the language in the calculation in order to demand some people from Medicaid that they pay higher co-plays “not” not good “.
“It sounds to me how it needs some work,” he said.
