{"id":2002371,"date":"2023-08-16T11:51:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T15:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-plans-to-decentralize-obamacare-giving-financial-power-to-states\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T15:51:51","slug":"pence-plans-to-decentralize-obamacare-giving-financial-power-to-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-plans-to-decentralize-obamacare-giving-financial-power-to-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence aims to shift Obamacare&#8217;s power to states, promoting decentralization."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpence-plans-to-decentralize-obamacare-giving-financial-power-to-states%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2002371&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Presidential hopeful Mike Pence pledges to\u200c restructure Obamacare for greater state\u200b flexibility<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Our \u2062top-down system \u200cneeds to be reformed,&#8221; the Pence campaign said in a statement. &#8220;States\u200d should have the ability to allocate healthcare dollars toward policies and plans that\u200d work best for their populations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Vice President \u2062Mike Pence, a contender for the presidency, announced \u2062on Wednesday that a key aspect of \u200chis healthcare\u2063 policy would involve revamping Obamacare to grant states more flexibility in administering\u200c low-income health \u2063services.<\/p>\n<p>Pence&#8217;s \u200dfull statement criticizes Obamacare as a program that &#8220;created a federally controlled healthcare system that included \u2064new mandates and costly\u200c requirements for states.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While\u200b specific policy details are not outlined in\u200c Pence&#8217;s statement, he emphasizes the importance of providing federal funds to states through flexible block grants instead of categorical grants with \u200dstrings attached. This approach would grant state lawmakers greater\u2062 independence in establishing \u2064their own insurance subsidies and \u200clow-income healthcare services.<\/p>\n<p>Repealing Obamacare\u2062 was a central focus of \u2062the Republican \u200cprimary during the 2016 election, \u2063with many candidates, including former President Donald Trump, vowing to replace President Barack Obama&#8217;s signature \u200cdomestic \u200bachievement with\u200d a conservative\u200d alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Despite\u2064 several attempts \u2063made during\u200c the Trump-Pence\u2064 administration \u200dto fulfill this\u200c promise,\u200b Republicans \u200bultimately \u2063failed and lost \u200ccontrol of the House to the Democrats in the \u200d2018 midterm\u200c elections.<\/p>\n<p>One \u200bof the proposed changes to Obamacare\u2062 in\u200c September 2017 involved distributing equal Medicaid\u200d funding to states in the form of block grants\u200c and allowing states to\u2064 implement work requirements without prior authorization from the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>Pence&#8217;s announcement regarding \u200dObamacare aligns with his\u2064 broader agenda of \u2062strengthening the Founding-era concept \u2064of federalism,\u200c which aims to\u200d distribute power more evenly \u2062between the \u200dstates and\u2062 the \u2062national government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Returning political \u2063power back to the states, \u200bcities, and communities \u200cgives\u2062 Americans the greatest autonomy and freedom over their own\u200d lives,&#8221; Pence stated.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure as Indiana governor, Pence \u200daccepted increased Medicaid funding under the\u200c Obamacare\u2064 expansion. However, he introduced several conservative provisions to the program&#8217;s \u200badministration in the Hoosier State, making it a \u2062model for other Republican-controlled states seeking\u200d to balance federal funds with their own ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>The Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0, \u2064as \u2064described \u2064in\u2064 a 2016\u200b op-ed by Pence, \u200bdiffered from traditional Medicaid systems due to its inclusion of a \u200bjob training program \u200band \u2064consumer-driven health\u2062 savings account provisions. Within the first year, the plan successfully reduced emergency room visits, increased\u200c preventative care and routine check-ups, and alleviated strain\u2062 on the state&#8217;s \u200bhealthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>During the \u200cTrump-Pence administration, \u2063the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services\u200d granted waivers to 13 states,\u200c allowing them \u2062to \u200bimplement work \u200brequirements for individuals to \u2063receive Medicaid \u2063coverage. However, these waivers were swiftly revoked \u2062by the\u200b new leadership at the\u2063 Department of Health and Human Services under\u2062 the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Other former\u2062 governors in \u200cthe \u2062GOP primary field, such as Nikki Haley,\u2064 Chris Christie, and Asa Hutchinson, \u2062also embraced the \u200dObamacare Medicaid expansion during their respective tenures. The only governor \u200din the GOP race who did\u200b not accept federal funds to expand\u2063 the Medicaid program in their state is Ron DeSantis of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>After \u200bofficially meeting\u200b the minimum\u200b requirement of 40,000 individual \u2064donors \u2063on Monday, Pence has qualified to \u2063join his competitors on the \u2064debate stage\u200d on \u200cAug. 23.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLICK\u2062 HERE TO READ\u200d MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>greater control over their own healthcare systems, tailoring them to the specific needs of their residents. By restructuring Obamacare, we can empower states to provide more efficient and effective low-income health services. It&#8217;s time to shift the power from the federal government to the states and put the people&#8217;s health first.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2002372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}