In Letter to Trump Admin Officials, Pingree Joins 34 Members of Congress in Opposing Plan to Turn Medicaid into Block Grants Without Consent of Congress, Says Plan is Illegal
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today joined 34 of her House colleagues in writing to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma to oppose the Trump administration’s plan to covert Medicaid into block grants. “The purpose of block grant waivers is to overhaul the…