Major changes for Medicaid coming under Trump and the GOP

NEW YORK — Donald Trump likely won’t let Medicaid collapse, but he will vastly change the health insurance program for low-income Americans. Think less federal funding, more state control, fewer participants and higher costs for those in the program. Here’s how Medicaid works now: Nearly 73 million Americans are on Medicaid or the related Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The programs cost $509 billion in fiscal 2015, with the federal government shouldering 62%