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Everything's Negotiable Except Cutting Medicaid

The new Senate health bill does make some significant changes, but major cuts to the largest public health-insurance program are still the key policy.
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The new draft of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Better Care Reconciliation Act released today has significant additions that have seemingly responded both to the demands of his own Republican conference and to public outcry.

As my colleague , perhaps the most significant change—or the most significant change—over the previous version of the BCRA is the addition of the Cruz amendment, which would allow insurers that provide at least one comprehensive plan on the exchanges to offer barebones plans alongside them that would

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