U.S. House budget plan could cut Medicaid for up to 100,000 Alaskans

As many as 100,000 Alaskans could lose health insurance if budget cuts supported by President Donald Trump and Republicans who control the U.S. House are enacted, according to Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital CEO Joe Wanner and other state health officials.

The Trump administration and House Republicans are backing a spending plan that cuts Medicaid by up to $880 billion during the next decade.

Wanner, during a meeting of Bartlett’s board of directors on Feb. 19, said the cut would affect 72,000 Alaskans who have been added since Medicaid coverage expanded under the Affordable Care Act of 2...