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Changes To Medicaid Key Issue In Debate Over ACA Replacement

Published March 8, 2017 at 1:06 PM EST
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, standing with Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., right, and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left, speaks during a news conference on the American Health Care Act on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 7, 2017. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, standing with Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., right, and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left, speaks during a news conference on the American Health Care Act on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 7, 2017. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)

The bill that House Republicans unveiled yesterday to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act includes significant changes to how Medicaid, the government insurance program that covers low-income Americans, is funded.

Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson talks with Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott), Washington correspondent with our partners at STAT, about the proposed changes.

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