Study: Minnesota Medicaid funding would drop 30 percent under Senate health bill

Minnesota and other states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act and pushed hard to boost enrollment in individual market plans would face deeper cuts than non-expansion states, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the Graham-Cassidy health care bill the Senate is poised to vote on next week.

Minnesota would get hit with a 30 percent reduction in Medicaid funding between 2020 and 2026, said Kaiser Family Foundation Executive Vice President Diane Rowland.

"The states that made the most progress and therefore drew the most federal dollars down are now seeing many of those dollars redistributed under this proposal," Rowland said.

The bill would also give states the option of scaling back core health plan-covered benefits and to allow insurance companies to charge people with preexisting health conditions more for coverage.