California Healthline: Medicaid Caps Pitched By GOP Could Shrink Seniors’ Benefits (3/21/2017) A Republican-proposed bill aims to cap federal Medicaid contribution to states. Medicaid pays for more than half of all long-term care in the US and supports more than 2 million low-income seniors. Advocates oppose the cap, fearing that benefits could shrink or disappear. Justice in Aging’s Eric Carlson said,“It doesn’t matter whether it’s a block grant or per-capita cap. Either way the federal government is setting a hard limit on federal funding available, and states are going to be forced to make due with whatever is sent to them, and it’s not going to be enough.”