Yet 10 pages into the American Health Care Act, the bill took aim at lottery winners who receive Medicaid. The measure that House Republicans unveiled Monday as the replacement for the Affordable Care Act devoted roughly a tenth of its 6o-odd-pages to lottery winners. Under the new bill, states would be able to disenroll “High Dollar Lottery Winners” from Medicaid. Rick Snyder signed a law preventing lottery winners from receiving food or other assistance programs. “Medicaid is meant to help the most vulnerable amongst us — not high-dollar Lottery winners,” Upton said in a statement at the time.

Source: Washington Post March 08, 2017 09:47 UTC