Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 37

Convert Medicaid to block grants

Never delivered
“[paraphrase] Administer Medicaid through block grants to the states.”
Promised
, Campaign health care position paper
Re-promised
4 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Health care
Era
2016 campaign

What happened

Congress never enacted block grants. A January 2020 CMS initiative called Healthy Adult Opportunity invited states to accept capped funding voluntarily; Oklahoma's application was the only one approved and the state withdrew it in 2020. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.

Sources

  1. Administer Medicaid through block grants PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Jul 15, 2020