What are Medicaid "spending caps"?
The two primary types of spending caps being considered by Congress are "block grants" and "per capita caps." While the funding structures of block grants and per capita caps are different, both approaches would lead to cuts in Medicaid spending that would grow over time.
For more detailed information about how block grants or per capita caps would work, you can visit the specific pages for each issue on our site. However, if you would like some helpful general overviews of what impacts Medicaid spending caps would have on Medicaid and the individuals and communities who rely on Medicaid for health care, please see the resources below.
General Overviews of Medicaid Spending Caps
An accessible and short video from the Kaiser Family Foundation about how Medicaid spending caps work and what’s at stake if they are implemented.
Joint Letter from Wisconsin Organizations to the White House & Wisconsin's Congressional Delegation Urging Opposition of Medicaid Block Grants or Spending Caps
A comprehensive and accessible issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation entitled 5 Key Questions: Medicaid Block Grants & Per Capita Caps.
A Center for Budget and Policy Priorities column on the potential effects of Medicaid spending caps as proposed by some Republican Governors and the differences between the Republican Governors’ proposal and Congressional Republicans.
A Center for Budget and Policy Priorities brief about how different House Republican proposals to implement Medicaid spending caps would affect states.
A Kaiser Family Foundation issue brief explaining the current level of flexibility states have in implementing the existing Medicaid program and whether states would actually gain flexibility under a block grant or per capita grant funding structure.
The two primary types of spending caps being considered by Congress are "block grants" and "per capita caps." While the funding structures of block grants and per capita caps are different, both approaches would lead to cuts in Medicaid spending that would grow over time.
For more detailed information about how block grants or per capita caps would work, you can visit the specific pages for each issue on our site. However, if you would like some helpful general overviews of what impacts Medicaid spending caps would have on Medicaid and the individuals and communities who rely on Medicaid for health care, please see the resources below.
General Overviews of Medicaid Spending Caps
An accessible and short video from the Kaiser Family Foundation about how Medicaid spending caps work and what’s at stake if they are implemented.
Joint Letter from Wisconsin Organizations to the White House & Wisconsin's Congressional Delegation Urging Opposition of Medicaid Block Grants or Spending Caps
A comprehensive and accessible issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation entitled 5 Key Questions: Medicaid Block Grants & Per Capita Caps.
A Center for Budget and Policy Priorities column on the potential effects of Medicaid spending caps as proposed by some Republican Governors and the differences between the Republican Governors’ proposal and Congressional Republicans.
A Center for Budget and Policy Priorities brief about how different House Republican proposals to implement Medicaid spending caps would affect states.
A Kaiser Family Foundation issue brief explaining the current level of flexibility states have in implementing the existing Medicaid program and whether states would actually gain flexibility under a block grant or per capita grant funding structure.
