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It is not exactly news that the health care system of our country is only a ‘system’ in the most generous sense of the word and that no entity is really in charge. Notwithstanding, there are some specific responsibilities that belong to the federal government, others who belong to the states, and others that are shared between them. And sometimes people and programs fall through the cracks.

Speaking for a live audience on 23 June at Aspen Ideas: Health in Colorado, three former governors – of whom a secretary of the Ministry of Health and Human Services also served – discussed what would be needed to make the Nation’s health care system run more smoothly.

The session, moderated by Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, contained Democrat Kathleen Sebelius, a former Governor of Kansas and HHS Secretary under President Barack Obama; Republican Chris Sununu, former Governor of New Hampshire; and Democrat Roy Cooper, former Governor of North Carolina.

Under the collection restaurants of the discussion:

• States – and the governors who lead them – are important ‘customers’ of the federal health system. For example, states have managed research universities with the help of federal subsidies from the National Institutes of Health. States also run Medicaid, the joint state-federal program for people with low incomes and a disability, which financed most of the issues such as mental health and substance use disorders. In fact, the most federal money sent to States for Medicaid is.
• Cutbacks on Medicaid in the home and senate versions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by President Donald Trump would leave a huge gap in state budgets – one that the states, who are already dealing with budget restrictions, would not be able to fill without making difficult choices. The bill in particular does not make substantive cuts Medicare, a program that has a considerable amount of surplus expenses and is expected to be insolvent within a decade.
• Controlling health care costs is a major care for the future of the fragmented health care system of the nation, as well as maintaining health care. More people without insurance cover means higher total costs. Pandemic Burn -Out, Immigration -Intens and Even the Costs of the University Exert pressure on a decreasing workforce. The federal government could do more to encourage medical professionals in primary care and national health care.

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