Post by Logan on Feb 17, 2016 0:58:01 GMT -6
Senate and House won't support Medicaid expansion, proposed tax cuts from savings
For the third consecutive year, Gov. Terry McAuliffe will not get his most fervent wish — expanded health coverage of hundreds of thousands of uninsured Virginians through the state-federal Medicaid program.
Senate Finance Co-Chairman Emmett W. Hanger Jr., R-Augusta, confirmed this week that the committee will not include McAuliffe’s proposal to expand Medicaid in the two-year budget it will release Sunday.
Nor will the spending plan include the governor’s proposals to cut the state corporate tax rate and expand the individual tax exemption with anticipated state savings from using federal funds under the Affordable Care Act to expand coverage to Virginians who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, Hanger said. He was a leader of a failed attempt in 2014 to use billions in federal funds to expand coverage.
“This session needs to be ‘let the dust settle’ and not be aggressive on anything related to the Affordable Care Act,” Hanger said Monday after a meeting of the Finance subcommittee on health and human resources.
Read more: www.richmond.com/news/virginia/article_9d2c513e-652e-546b-ab50-4c9151b125c9.html
For the third consecutive year, Gov. Terry McAuliffe will not get his most fervent wish — expanded health coverage of hundreds of thousands of uninsured Virginians through the state-federal Medicaid program.
Senate Finance Co-Chairman Emmett W. Hanger Jr., R-Augusta, confirmed this week that the committee will not include McAuliffe’s proposal to expand Medicaid in the two-year budget it will release Sunday.
Nor will the spending plan include the governor’s proposals to cut the state corporate tax rate and expand the individual tax exemption with anticipated state savings from using federal funds under the Affordable Care Act to expand coverage to Virginians who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, Hanger said. He was a leader of a failed attempt in 2014 to use billions in federal funds to expand coverage.
“This session needs to be ‘let the dust settle’ and not be aggressive on anything related to the Affordable Care Act,” Hanger said Monday after a meeting of the Finance subcommittee on health and human resources.
Read more: www.richmond.com/news/virginia/article_9d2c513e-652e-546b-ab50-4c9151b125c9.html