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The House Republicans’ Health Care Outline Would Eviscerate Medicaid

House Republican leadership has just released their plan for health care "reform." The plan includes sweeping changes to Medicaid that would end the Medicaid expansion's extra payments to states, ef...

West Virginia’s Medicaid Coalition: The Bridge to the Middle Class

West Virginians for Affordable Health Care (WVAHC) formed a coalition, called “The Bridge to the Middle Class,” to support positive reforms in the state’s Medicaid expansion and head off any th...

Changing Kentucky’s Medicaid Expansion Would Set Back a Successful Program

In June, we wrote about Governor Matt Bevin’s proposal to change Kentucky’s hugely successful Medicaid program, which had just been released for state comments. The proposal has made its way th...

Medicaid Expansion Improves People’s Financial Stability

Last month, Kentucky asked the federal government for approval to make significant and troubling changes to its highly successful Medicaid expansion program. To justify its request, the state assert...

CMS Rejects Ohio’s Request for Harsh Policies in Its Medicaid Program

Last week, CMS rejected Ohio’s request to make significant changes to its Medicaid program. With this decision, CMS is making it clear that policies that make it harder for the lowest-income people...

Two-Month-Old Medicaid Expansion is Already Helping Louisiana Get Healthy

It’s been only two months since the Louisiana Medicaid expansion—dubbed Healthy Louisiana—went into effect, and already Louisianans are reaping the benefits. New data show that Medicaid expan...

The Wrong Conclusions about ER Use from Study on Oregon’s Medicaid Lottery

A new study about emergency room use in Oregon is fueling the debate about whether expanding Medicaid as made possible under the Affordable Care Act leads to high emergency room use. To understand wha...

Webinar: Health Advocacy after the 2016 Elections

Join Families USA for a post-election webinar to discuss what the election results mean for health advocacy priorities in 2017 and beyond. Speakers will include: Ron Pollack, Executive Director;...

Repeal Will Be Only the First Hit to Medicaid

If Republicans in Congress and President-elect Trump are successful in repealing the Affordable Care Act early next year as they have pledged, what happens to Medicaid, which insures one in five Ameri...

In Their Own Words: Republican Governors Support Medicaid Expansion

If Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act, it will also eliminate one of the law’s most popular and successful elements: the expansion of Medicaid to cover people with low and moderate incomes. Th...