Sentence examples for capita cap from inspiring English sources

If the American Health Care Act (the Republican replacement for Obamacare) passes Congress, Medicaid will convert to a per capita cap system.

Azar noted that states may request waivers for making changes to their Medicaid programs -- including for block grants (or, presumably, a per capita cap a la Utah).

Changes to Medicaid could include a "per capita cap", or a limit to how much the federal government pays states per enrollee in the program.

While the figures in the revised draft aimed to ease the concerns of several key senators, there was no indication that the sponsors had abandoned their plan to make steep cuts to Medicaid through a per capita cap.

—Convert Medicaid's current federal-state financial partnership to a per capita cap, which would cap and cut federal Medicaid per-beneficiary funding for seniors, people with disabilities, and families with children.

But the Republican push to overhaul health care would implement a new "per capita cap" system for Medicaid: Instead of matching whatever states spend on Medicaid, the federal government would instead give them a fixed amount for each Medicaid enrollee.

And there's interest in setting per capita caps on payments to state governments for Medicaid, the health program for the poor.

But it would even be true with per capita caps.

The irony is that the GCHJ per capita caps proposal on the table is far more generous than what President Clinton proposed at the time.

During the Clinton administration, numerous Democrats—ranging from liberal lions such as Sens. Teddy Kenney, Joe Biden, and Paul Wellstone to current sitting Senators like Sens. Patty Murray and Patrick Lahey supported per capita caps in Medicaid.

The Senate bill changes Medicaid funding to per capita caps.