Senate Healthcare Bill Makes Major Cuts to Medicaid

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 22, 2017

The Senate healthcare bill, which was released Thursday, promised to revamp the health bill passed by the House last month, making it more agreeable to democrats and most recently, to the president. However, the new bill keeps much of the old bill's key components, like making deep cuts to Medicaid and eliminating Obamacare's mandate. The bill also comes does come with some notable differences like offering more financial assistance to some lower-income people.

Mary Agnes Carey, partnerships editor and senior correspondent at Kaiser Health News, and Liz Benjamin,host of Capital Tonight on Spectrum News talk about what’s inside the new health care bill and who it serves.

 

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