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Nursing Homes and the AMA, Once Medicaid Defenders, Hang Back as GOP Mulls Big Cuts - KFF Health News

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The American Medical Association and the American Health Care Association have been notably restrained as GOP lawmakers consider sweeping new Medicaid cuts.

The AMA is lobbying lawmakers to reverse a nearly 3% cut in Medicare ’s fees for physicians.

The AHCA has pushed Congress to roll back regulations enacted under President Joe Biden that mandate better staffing ratios at nursing homes.

Medicaid ’s defenders say they’re still looking for more voices to speak up. “ Republicans have said outright that silence is consent,” Wyden said. “If health care organizations don’t speak out against the GOP ’s plans to cut health care, Republican lawmakers are going to assume those organizations are on board with their agenda.”.