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.