GOP platform holds back on health policies except in social issues

Modern Healthcare: The Republican Party platform released Monday at the 2016 convention is strongly conservative on social issues related to healthcare and contains little in the way of new ideas.

The platform calls for a halt to the Affordable Care Act, shifting Medicare to a premium support model and turning Medicaid into a capped state block grant program. It does not go as far as the plan outlined recently by Republicans in the House of Representatives but also shies away from some of presumptive candidate Donald Trump's more controversial statements.

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