GOP opts for Medicaid compromise in battle between centrists and hardliners

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GOP opts for Medicaid compromise in battle between centrists and hardliners

House Republicans on Sunday night offered the first glimpse of their Medicaid overhaul plan, which is expected to cut billions of dollars to help finance President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts agenda.A preview of the plan, which House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie outlined in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Sunday, would impose major new rules designed to cut spending. That includes work requirements for adults who are physically “capable” of working, in Guthrie’s own description, and more frequent eligibility checks for those relying on the program, which provides health insurance to low-income Americans.But it does not ..