CMS chief hints at changes to Medicaid

Published May 30, 2017 3:01pm ET



The administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday said she questioned whether addressing health insurance for low-income people should have happened through Medicaid, as it did under Obamacare.

“We need a solution for low-income, non-disabled Americans … I question whether Medicaid is the best vehicle,” Seema Verma said, speaking in a USA Today interview that was live streamed.

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