Report: Senate health reform cuts $3.1b from Alaska’s Medicaid

Protestors at the U.S. Capitol in May. Photo by Liz Ruskin.A new state-commissioned analysis of the U.S. Senate health care bill said it would lower Medicaid payments to the Alaska by $3.1 billion over six years. That’s an even bigger cut than in the bill the House passed.
The report by Manatt Health said the 34,000 Alaskans now covered by Medicaid expansion could lose coverage after 2020, and the state may have to make cuts elsewhere, too.
In Washington this week, Senate leaders post