Gop could lower Medicaid, focuses on hospitals to pay for Trump tax reductions

Republicans are considering a litany of budget policy policy that would harm the health care sector, and in particular hospitals, because they are looking for ways to pay for an extension of President Trump’s tax cuts.

Huis republicans are planning to use a special budget process to extend tax cuts for private individuals, take immigration measures and to stimulate military expenditure. The process, called reconciliation, avoids the risk of Filibuster, allowing Republicans to set their priorities without the support of Democrats.

That policy is expensive. The government will cost an estimated about $ 4 trillion for more than ten years, according to the Treasury Department and the Conference budget office. Republicans would like to pay for a large part of those costs, although there is disagreement between moderates and conservatives about how much to compensate.