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Advocates Should Comment on Radical Maine and Utah Medicaid Waiver Proposals

A growing number of states are using the waiver process to make fundamental changes to the Medicaid program. Many of these waivers set a dangerous precedent for the Medicaid program and affect the ent...

Trump Administration Will Approve Work Requirements in Medicaid

Today, in a speech to the National Association of Medicaid Directors, CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced that the Trump Administration is approving Medicaid waivers that impose work requirements ...

What Maine’s Medicaid Expansion Victory Means for Health Care

Last night, Maine voters took control at the ballot box to expand health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. The decisive win--with nearly 60 percent of the vote-- shows ...

Drug Testing in Medicaid Is Illegal and Hurts the People Who Need Help Most

Recently, the state of Wisconsin submitted an application to the federal government seeking Medicaid waiver authority to make drug testing a condition of eligibility for the state’s adult Medicaid...

Congress Should Act Immediately to Address Health Crises in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands

Today, Families USA and 125 community, provider, labor, and patient organizations sent a letter urging Congress to take immediate action to address the post-hurricane health crises in Puerto Rico an...

Medicaid Work Requirements Aren’t About Work, They’re About Taking Health Care Away From Low-Income Americans

This op-ed originally appeared in The Hill In early January, the Trump administration’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) directed states to deny adults Medicaid coverage if they can...

Medicaid Waivers: Webinar on Work Requirements and Beyond (Webinar video from January 31, 2018)

On January 31, Families USA staff held a webinar about how state advocates can address Medicaid waiver proposals that include work requirements and other restrictions. View webinar. Our experts revi...

Michigan’s Medicaid Work Requirements Bill Will Be Terrible for Family Caregivers

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 lo...

Protecting Medicaid in Kentucky: Q&A with Emily Beauregard

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 ...

Four Big Problems with Michigan’s Medicaid Waiver Legislation Aside from the Work Requirement

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 ab...