{"id":30539,"date":"2021-01-08T17:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30539"},"modified":"2021-01-08T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:22:40","slug":"trump-administration-approves-controversial-changes-to-tennessee-medicaid-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30539","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration approves controversial changes to Tennessee Medicaid program\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration on Friday approved a request from Tennessee that would allow the state to receive Medicaid funding through a block grant, a change critics argue will lead to cuts to the health care program for low-income individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The change would give Tennessee more authority to make changes to its Medicaid program, which is jointly run by each state and the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The approval marks the first time a state has been allowed to receive Medicaid funding through a block grant. It must be approved by Tennessee\u2019s state legislature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not based on the state spending less money in its Medicaid program,\u201d said TennCare Director Stephen Smith in a call with reporters. \u201cThere are no cuts to eligibility, no reduction, benefits, no reduction to services, and no reductions to what we pay our providers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Caveat:\u00a0<\/em>President-elect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/idczptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqygnzyyd_bzqpggflfypqpdpjqczf.html?a=&amp;b=36035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/idczptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqygnzyyd_bzqpggflfypqpdpjqczf.html?a%3D%26b%3D36035&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1610234019675000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHRG5hCslB557pNJbAVdhvMA_3ChQ\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0(D) opposes block grants and would have the authority to reverse the approval of Tennessee\u2019s waiver once he takes office, though it would not be immediate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration on Friday approved&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30540,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30539\/revisions\/30540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}