HealthCare Notes

7/1/11

The Consequences Of Repealing Medicaid’s Maintenance Of Effort Provision

The Consequences Of Repealing Medicaid’s Maintenance Of Effort Provision: "pOut of the many troubling health care repeal amendments in the Korean trade agreement, Sen. Orrin Hatch’s (R-UT) proposal to repeal the maintenance of effort provision for the Medicaid program — which requires states to maintain their enrollment numbers or risk losing federal funding — is possibly the most egregious. It encompasses the Republican approach [...]/p"