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On June 12, Families USA held a webinar that highlighted successful tactics and strategies that could be used in states seeking work requirements. Advocates in Colorado and Minnesota discuss how they successfully stopped work requirements…
Budget Proposal Would Allow States To Drop Medicaid Transportation Benefits Across The Entire Program Without Precedent The need for transportation among Medicaid enrollees is so widespread that ending Medicaid’s broad “assurance of transportation” would…
Medicaid managed care contracting is a promising pathway for securing more sustainable funding for community health workers (CHWs). This issue brief provides examples of contract language that can be used to incentivize or require Medicaid managed…
Medicaid Waivers in Legal and Policy Context; Families USA and Kentucky Voices for Health Explain Lockouts, Work Requirements, and Other Illegal Attempts to Hurt Vulnerable Families Washington, D.C.—On Monday, June 11 Families USA and Kentucky Voices…
Today, the Michigan legislature passed a bill that imposes new work and premium requirements on its huge Medicaid expansion population. Families USA and other organizations have written extensively about how work requirements don't belong…
Kentucky’s successful Medicaid expansion is in jeopardy. The Trump administration approved the state’s request to impose work requirements on people who get health coverage through Medicaid which would lead to people being kicked off…
Back in March, in the wake of just one in a long line of tragic and senseless mass shootings, Families USA organized a letter to Congress signed by more than 170 national and state organizations…
On May 23, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest analysis of health insurance coverage and costs. Much of the report’s media coverage has focused on the projected 15 percent premium increase for…
Michigan lawmakers are debating a bill that jeopardizes the Medicaid coverage on which hundreds of thousands of low-income residents rely. While supporters claim the bill will protect people from losing coverage if they take care of…
Third-party payment programs can improve affordability and increase enrollment for low-income consumers without triggering adverse selection. This week, the Commonwealth Fund published my research report describing several successful programs, primarily local, that use hospital dollars…