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GAO objects that a 2019 law secures nearly $3 billion of Medicaid for Puerto Rico annually

The report brings back the possibility of a fiscal cliff in the Island health care system

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Washington - A legal analysis by the Comptroller General’s Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday rejected the Joe Biden administration’s interpretation that a December 2019 federal law allows nearly $3 billion in annual Medicaid funds to be allocated to Puerto Rico “in perpetuity”.

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