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Senate Republicans warned on Monday that Congress may have to change the law after the president makes large amounts of Medicaid Donald Trump’s “Big, beautiful Bill.”
“The pressure” will grow over time, allowing lawmakers to change the massive cuts in large Medicaid,” said Sen. Susan Collins of R-Maine during a appearance at the Global Health Innovation Forum at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
She said she supports other large items in the bill, such as expanding provisions of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and employment bill and strengthening job requirements for Medicaid.
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R-Maine Senator Susan Collins addressed the media on November 6, 2022 at the border crossing point in Washington, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)
But Collins believes that although efforts should be made to reduce Medicaid and Medicare In the country, nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid would hurt Americans.
“They don’t go into effect next year, and the second year is in effect,” Collins said. “But there won’t be any difference in the year at all, and I’m just very worried that people who need care won’t get it.”
Collins warned that once “we start seeing Americans become more sicker because they no longer have coverage and delayed treatment,” lawmakers will have to better study their green cuts in June.
“I can’t see the states that can strengthen and fill the gap here. I just don’t. Even rich countries,” she said. “I just can’t see that. As the meaning of the bill becomes more well known, I think Congress will have a huge pressure on changing the law. But we will need evidence, stories, research that has not happened.”
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She is one of three Senate Republicans – and the other Senators are the senses. Rand PaulThom Tillis of Kentucky and North Carolina will vote for the huge package in June. At the time, she believed Medicaid cuts were a key reason for her decision not to support the bill.
Collins noted that it would be a marathon before the bill had been on the floor on the bill, 29 hours of vote-A-RAMA, and then before the last pass of the House of Lords, she told both Republican leader In the White House Senate and officials, she is a tough “no” unless the bill is changed.
She provided leaders and the government with a list of 10 items she encountered, including cuts that would affect rural hospitals. She said there are 32 rural hospitals in Maine, one of which has just been closed.
“We have five of us wandering on the edge of the closure because they are already in trouble because Medicaid reimbursement is not high enough and because population changes are not enough,” she said.
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Sen. Susan Collins warned Monday that Congress may have to change the law after large amounts of Medicaid in President Donald Trump’s “Big and Beautiful Act.” (Fox News)
Collins and other Medicaid skeptics, including Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo). Mehmet Oz To raise funds.
Still, in states like Maine, where about 31% of the Medicaid population, she fears layoffs will see hospitals bear more care.
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“I’m worried that for states like Maine, those cuts will be devastating for people who rely on it,” Collins said. “But you know, a lot of people will still be in the hospital emergency room.”
“They won’t get the care they need to keep them away from the hospital’s emergency room,” she continued. “They will face their problems and they won’t be overshadowed by Medicaid, which is unpaid care for the hospital.”
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