The president has undermined the Affordable Care Act, but it “remains the law,” the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said. But she encouraged the state to keep trying.
Evaluations of state experiments “generally lacked rigor,” and the findings were often kept secret for years, so they were of little use, a government report said.
Promising “a new day for Medicaid,” Seema Verma, President Trump’s top health care official, called on states to move Medicaid in a conservative direction.
At an annual gathering of state executives, there appears to be broad discomfort with legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare. The only question is how to express it.