Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud
The Trump administration announced last month that it would hold back $867m in Medicaid funding for California, joining an earlier halt of $1.34bn – totaling $2.2bn in withheld payments to the state. Officials are also holding on to a total of $550m in Medicaid funding for Minnesota from the past three quarters.
The amounts would cover services already paid by the states, for which the federal government normally partly reimburses them – creating a budgetary strain for the states, which have continued to cover Medicaid services despite the federal halt.
yeah and what happens when the person working 80/month has surgery and has to have some recovery time and does not get 80 in the month. they lose it exactly when they need it most and complications come in and they lose the job they barely had.