Modern Healthcare September 25, 2017
Harris Meyer

Healthcare industry analysts scrambled to figure out how a revised Senate GOP healthcare bill released Monday morning would distribute federal funding among the states and loosen protections for Americans with pre-existing medical conditions.

Meanwhile, a Senate Finance Committee hearing Monday afternoon to consider the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act had to be delayed while protesters loudly chanted calls to protect Medicaid, which would be capped and cut under the bill.

The hearing started even though the Congressional Budget Office had not yet issued what it said would be a limited fiscal review of the bill. The CBO had said it would not have time to complete a full estimate of the bill’s impact on coverage...

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