More key House committees plan to meet this week to mark up their budget reconciliation plans, after the Energy and Commerce Committee released a series of committee prints Sunday night.
The Energy and Commerce Committee’s draft includes significant changes to Medicaid, including work requirements, more frequent eligibility checks on beneficiaries and changes to the way states raise their share of Medicaid funding.
“Medicaid waste and abuse threatens the well-being of America’s most vulnerable as the looming expiration of important 2017 tax reforms throws a shadow over U.S. industry,” Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., wrote in the Wall Street Journal. “Republicans’ best chance to secure the president’s inaugural promise is this year’s reconciliation bill.”
