Coverage
A Deep Dive into the Connections Between Oral and Behavioral Health
Oral health is an important aspect of overall health and influences physical and mental well-being, but receives less of its fair share of attention and resources. For people with mental health condit...
View MoreOral Health for All: Addressing Dental Coverage for Grownups in Congress and the States
Oral health coverage for adults is excluded from Medicare and minimal in most state Medicaid programs. Luckily, some federal and state lawmakers are realizing what we all know—that oral health is cr...
View MoreHealth Care Victories in the 2018 State Legislative Sessions
While congressional health care legislation stalled and federal actions undermined provisions of the Affordable Care Act, state policymakers stepped up to address a range of issues affecting health ca...
View MoreCommunity Health Workers: Key Partners in Improving Children’s Health and Eliminating Inequities
Community Health Workers are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of, and deeply rooted in, the communities they serve. Increasingly, CHWs are recognized as playing a unique and inv...
View MoreHealth Coverage Matters for Children: The Role of Medicaid in the Healthy Development of America’s Children
Access to health care is crucial to children’s health and development. When children have health insurance, they are more likely to get the health care they need. For more than 40 percent of childre...
View MoreThe Public Charge Rule: What it Means and What You Can Do to Stop It
On October 10, 2018, the Trump administration published a proposed rule in the Federal Register that would make it much harder for immigrants to obtain visas (including visas to study or work in the U...
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There’s no pain-free way to get beyond silver loading
This blog’s readers know that President Trump’s termination of federal cost-sharing-reduction (CSR) payments in late 2017 had unexpected effects. Intended as a deadly blow to the Affordable Care A...
View MoreTrending: Why 2 Million Inconsistencies in ACA Applications are Not a Big Deal
Recently media outlets have reported that the government is having trouble verifying the income information of as many as 2 million people enrolled in health coverage through the Aff...
View MoreCalifornia’s Seniors Would Benefit From Medicare Oral Health Coverage
Six million Californians rely on the Medicare program. Nationally, about two-thirds of Medicare beneficiaries do not have any coverage for oral health care. Medicare currently covers almost no oral h...
View MoreCommunity Health Worker Impact Estimator Tools: Asthma & Diabetes
For generations, community leaders have seen how valuable community health workers (CHWs), promotores, community health representatives, and the many other variations of community-based peer support w...
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