Adam Searing 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚵

Research Faculty Georgetown University, CCF. Attorney, health policy. Lifelong cyclist, sailor, kayaker and hiker. Mainly at @adamsearing.bsky.social

[Adam Searing 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚵 @AdamSearing]

I've moved over to @adamsearing.bsky.social for my health....see you there. https://t.co/QYuxtz2Ack

[Joan Alker @JoanAlker1]

Our updated @georgetownccf tracker finds that 16 months into President Trump’s 2nd term, Medicaid is covering 2 million fewer children.

This is very bad news b/c the child uninsured rate is likely going up as a result.

And this is before HR 1 Medicaid cuts kick in.

[Adam Searing 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚵 @AdamSearing]

The Rural Health Transformation Fund: Political Rhetoric Meets Bipartisan Concern as the Program Moves Forward
https://t.co/aQAVxh205c

[Joan Alker @JoanAlker1]

A serious effort to detect fraud against Medicaid would not dump data online with no context.

CMS itself indicates elsewhere on their website that in 22 states the underlying data that was dumped by the Trump Administration was “unusable” or of “high concern”.

[Adam Searing 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚵 @AdamSearing]

Bear may be 11, but deer-induced acceleration shows his low fitness age

[Adam Searing 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚵 @AdamSearing]

My latest:
Trump Administration Severely Limits Funding for Rural Hospitals and Clinics from Rural Health Transformation Fund – Capped at 15%

https://t.co/0k4McDP5RU

[Elisabeth Wright Burak @ewburak]

States Should Use Rural Transformation Fund to Focus on Children and Families with Anne Dwyer https://t.co/Y2itlcnGVd via @GeorgetownCCF

[Adam Searing 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚵 @AdamSearing]

I‘m thinking today about Saint Ignatius, the Budget Reconciliation Bill’s “Rural Health Transformation Fund” and Down East North Carolina:

Will the Trump Administration use the Rural Health Fund to try and improve rural health or is it all politics?

https://t.co/5BamLVXnZ4

[Adam Searing 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚵 @AdamSearing]

Buried in grant docs for HR1 Rural Health Fund:

States more likely to get $ by passing GOP priorities like getting rid of CON laws, expanding skimpy health plans, limiting SNAP and changing scope of practice. Plus Govs rqd to agree in writing - by 11/5
https://t.co/oYlY16esvm

[Adam Searing 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚵 @AdamSearing]

Commentary - Is West Virginia ready for Capito Care?

https://t.co/JbyXT4R4ft

[Adam Searing 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚵 @AdamSearing]

Messaging spin v. actual wording of the law that passed Congress:

Coming federal Medicaid cuts hitting state budgets will not be negated by the newly-created but misnamed Rural Health Transformation Program.

https://t.co/xKPVS5nzKF

[Adam Searing 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚵 @AdamSearing]

My home state GOP Senator Thom Tillis dug up the facts and said it best this week on $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid. @JoanAlker1, Andy Schneider, and I let his words speak for themselves in our new blog. https://t.co/KGU1JQVCy4

[Joan Alker @JoanAlker1]

My colleague Edwin Park has blogged about the new Senate bill CBO score confirming that Medicaid cuts are over $1 trillion.

https://t.co/zRC61mMPX6

[Sarah Lueck @sarahL202]

This effectively repeals Medicaid expansion in only a few years. New analysis here: https://t.co/3FzwLKtYVa

[Georgetown Center for Children and Families @GeorgetownCCF]

G.O.P. Bill Has $1.1 Trillion in Health Cuts and 11.8 Million Losing Care, C.B.O. Says https://t.co/9B5aLfi9wa via @NYTimes

[Adam Searing 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚵 @AdamSearing]

I’ve respectfully disagreed with Rep. Tillis, Speaker Tillis and Sen. Tillis for years on Medicaid. On the effect of the trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid in the Senate bill, today I 100% agree with the Senator. Great statement.

[Senator Thom Tillis @SenThomTillis]

The facts matter. The people matter. The Senate’s Medicaid approach breaks promises and will kick people off of Medicaid who truly need it. The Senate can make one simple fix to make sure that won’t happen.

[Joan Alker @JoanAlker1]

👀Our new report finds Medicaid is a key insurer for small business workers and their families.

This is a pretty astounding finding especially as the denominator is all Medicaid enrollees which includes seniors and people with disabilities.
https://t.co/MlAFdbmJ9c

[Joan Alker @JoanAlker1]

In a shocking dereliction of duty the leadership of the U.S. Senate - the so-called “world’s greatest deliberative body” - released text at midnight last night for the “OBBB” allegedly to start debate at noon today.

Medicaid cuts remain extremely draconian.

[Joan Alker @JoanAlker1]

The Senate version of the Medicaid work requirement doubles down and worsens a bad policy advanced by the House.

It also gives the Trump Administration enormous leverage to protect their Governor friends and punish their enemies by timing the coverage losses.
1/7

[Adam Searing 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🚵 @AdamSearing]

From me and @JoanAlker1 : "The “One Big Beautiful Bill” is an Attack on the Affordable Care Act’s Vision of Universal Coverage"

https://t.co/svNfcC3Qif

[Adrianna McIntyre (@adrianna.bsky.social) @onceuponA]

18 state-based marketplaces just sent a pretty blistering letter to House leadership about just how damaging the ACA policies in the reconciliation bill — which drive almost a quarter of estimated coverage losses, before accounting for expiration of enhanced subsidies — would be.