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Administration Rejects Proposal For Lifetime Medicaid Cap

The Trump administration laid out limits on how much flexibility it would allow states in running Medicaid. Work requirements are in and lifetime caps are out.
Seema Verma told hospital executives that she wants states to have flexibility in how they administer Medicaid, but there are limits.

The Trump administration has made clear it would like to remake the American health care system. There's been the protracted battle over the Affordable Care Act. Now, there are some new moves on the future of Medicaid.

On Monday, the federal government released decisions on requests from two states to change the way

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