States could also use the funded health savings accounts option to replace the Medicaid expansion. Medicaid expansion, collectively slashing the ranks of their uninsured by 45 percent. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyBut they generally call for delaying Medicaid’s phaseout, not stopping it. Health care scholars on the left and right have suggested that such a “superwaiver” compromise is the only way to end the parties’ ideological war over health insurance access. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAt that point, perhaps both sides will stagger toward a health care truce — driven in part by the president’s craving to validate his core brand as a deal maker.

Source: New York Times March 24, 2017 14:25 UTC