Fortune | FORTUNE 06月30日 06:54
Senate GOP restores Medicaid cuts to Trump tax package
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参议院共和党人修改了特朗普标志性经济立法中的医疗补助削减计划,以克服程序障碍。此举涉及对贫困和残疾人的医疗保险计划进行支出削减,部分抵消了减税带来的收入损失,是共和党财政保守派的关键要求。修订后的条款有助于共和党巩固为该法案提供资金所需的支出削减,但可能疏远三位关键参议员。参议院共和党领袖试图在保守派和温和派之间寻求平衡,以争取在7月4日的最后期限前通过这项大规模的税收和支出方案。该法案还包括对个人和企业减税的永久性措施,以及对军方、边境巡逻和移民执法的额外支出。

🏥 共和党人修改了特朗普的经济立法,恢复了对医疗补助的重大削减,以克服程序障碍,并满足财政保守派的需求。

⚖️ 参议院规则执行者裁定,一项限制各州对医疗保健提供者征税以资助医疗补助的修正条款是可以接受的,但具体节省的预算额尚不清楚。

📉 国会预算办公室估计,该立法可能导致数百万人失去医疗保险。此前版本的法案预计到本十年末将导致1180万人失去医疗福利。

💰 该法案包含永久性的个人和企业减税措施,并增加了对军方、边境巡逻和移民执法的额外支出,但同时削减了医疗补助、低收入美国人的食品援助和大学生助学金。

🚫 参议院规则执行者还否决了旨在阻止简化联邦医疗保健注册和拜登时代养老院最低人员配备要求的措施,这可能威胁到该税收法案的数十亿美元的节省。

Senate Republicans restored major Medicaid cuts to Donald Trump’s signature economic legislation, re-fashioning a key provision to overcome a procedural obstacle.

Spending cuts to the health insurance program for the poor and disabled partially offset revenue losses from tax cuts in the measure and are a crucial demand of GOP fiscal conservatives.

The revision helps Republicans shore up the spending cuts they need to fund the bill, but it could also alienate three crucial senators — Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina — who have been pushing to scale back the Medicaid cuts.

Senate Republican Leader John Thune is trying to navigate competing demands from conservatives and moderates as he rushes to pass the massive tax and spending package to meet a July 4 deadline Trump has set for congressional approval.

The Senate’s legislative rules-keeper had judged a series of key health care provisions in the legislation ineligible for a special procedure Republicans are using to bypass the Senate’s normal process so they can avoid making concessions to Democrats. 

That earlier decision swept aside $250 billion in spending cuts fiscal conservatives had sought.

But Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled acceptable a revised provision that would limit states’ ability to tax health care providers to help fund Medicaid, Senate Budget Committee Democrats said in an email on Sunday.

It wasn’t immediately clear how much budget savings the new version would produce.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the legislation could lead to millions of people losing health coverage. The scorekeeper found that an earlier iteration of the Senate bill would lead to 11.8 million people losing health benefits by the end of the decade.

Earlier: Trump Tax Bill Hits $250 Billion Health-Care Snag in Senate

The revised provision is likely bad news for HCA Healthcare Inc. and Tenet Healthcare Corp., as hospitals are again facing potential cuts to Medicaid funding.

States often use the provider taxes, within some already existing rules, to draw down federal funding and increase payments to facilities like hospitals.

The House version of the provider tax provision, which is less aggressive than the Senate’s draft, would have saved the federal government $89 billion over a decade, according to congressional budget analysts.

Alaska, Biden Rules

The Senate’s rules-keeper also nixed measures that would’ve boosted some hospital outpatient payments and Medicaid federal matching rates for Alaska and Hawaii, according to Democrats on the Budget Committee. The measures had been included as Thune sought to win over support, including from Alaska’s Murkowski, who eventually helped advance the legislation after expressing hesitations.

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The parliamentarian also said provisions aimed at blocking efforts to streamline federal health care enrollment and a Biden-era nursing home minimum staffing requirement weren’t in compliance with chamber rules. That could threaten billions in savings for the tax bill.

The Congressional Budget Office, when considering a similar House-passed measure aimed at blocking implementation the enrollment regulations until 2035, estimated $167 billion in savings over the next decade, while placing a moratorium on the nursing home staffing rule would save $23 billion.

The Senate version of the legislation, the centerpiece of Trump’s economic agenda, makes permanent individual and business tax breaks enacted in 2017, while adding temporary new breaks for tipped and overtime workers, seniors and car-buyers. 

The bill would add hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending for the military, border patrol and immigration enforcement. To partly pay for the revenue losses, the bill reduces spending on Medicaid, food assistance for low-income Americans and financial aid to college students.

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