Foster Youth Provision Survives in House Healthcare Bill
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided presumptive Medicaid eligibility until age 26 for any youth aging out of the foster care system. The House’s newly unveiled healthcare bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), will not repeal that provision. The AHCA does plenty to downsize Medicaid; its caps the entitlement and phases out the ACA expansion of it. But no portion of the bill’s text appears to repeal the new mandatory eligibility categories established by ACA, including