Sen Collins warns that Congress will face pressure to combat the Trump Medicaid cuts

A republican of the Senate warned on Monday that the congress should probably change the law following the deep cups of Medicaid in the “great and beautiful bill” of President Donald Trump.

Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, said during an appearance to the Global Health Innovation forum of the Massachusetts General Hospital of Boston that “pressure” would increase over time for the legislators to bring a change to the steep cups from Megabill in Medicaid.

She said that she supported other large ticket articles in the bill, such as extending the provisions of the Trump 2017 Trump and jobs law and the strengthening of Medicaid work requirements.

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Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, warned that Congress would be under “enormous pressure” to consider changing the law in response to the steep cups of Medicaid by President Donald Trump in his “big and beautiful bill”. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

But Collins argued that even if there should be an effort to reduce the costs of Medicaid and Medicare in the country, the deep cuts of almost a Billion of Dollars in Medicaid would injure the Americans.

“They do not come into force next year, they come into force the following year,” said Collins. “But a year will not make any difference at all, and I am very concerned about the fact that people who need care will not get it.”

Collins warned that “we are starting to see the Americans become more sick as a result of this, after delaying treatment because they no longer have the coverage”, so legislators will have to examine the cuts they were enlightened in June.

“I do not see the states having the capacity to intensify and fill the gap here. I do not do it. Even rich states,” she said. “I do not see this happening. And as the implications of the bill become better known, I think there will be enormous pressure on the congress to change the law. But we will need the evidence, stories, research that has not occurred.”

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She was one of the only three Republicans in the Senate – the others were meaningful. Rand Paul, from Kentucky, and Thom Tillis, from North Carolina – to vote against the colossal package in June. At the time, she quoted Medicaid Cuts as a key reason for her decision not to support the bill.

Collins noted that before the bill did not go to the floor for what would become a marathon, 29 hours on a-rama vote before the final adoption in the upper chamber, she told the two Republican leaders in the Senate and to the White House officials that it was a hard “no” unless changes are made to the bill.

She offered managers and the administration a list of 10 elements with which she disputed, including cuts that would affect rural hospitals. Maine has 32 rural hospitals, she said, one of being closed.

“There are five of us who have the edge of the closure because they are already in difficulty, because Medicaid reimbursements are not high enough, and also because of population changes,” she said.

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Senator Susan Collins warned on Monday that the congress should probably change the law following the deep cups of Medicaid in the “big and beautiful bill” of President Donald Trump. (Fox News)

Collins and other skeptics of the Medicaid cups, including Senator Josh Hawley, R -MO., Made a minor victory with the inclusion of a rural hospital of $ 50 billion to help compensate for wider cuts – and she has sworn to put pressure on the Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz centers.

However, in a state like Maine, which holds around 31% of the population of Medicaid, it feared that the cuts to see hospitals delete more the costs of care.

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“These cuts, I am worried, will be devastating for states like Maine, for people who are on this,” said Collins. “But you know, many of these people will still go to the emergency room of the hospital.”

“They will not have received the care they need to keep them out of the hospital emergency room,” she continued. “They will come to you with their problems, and they will not be covered by Medicaid, and the problem with this is that it will be unpaid care for hospitals.”

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