Coverage

Giving Babies and New Mothers an Healthy Start

Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decided to adopt all of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) eight recommendations for fully covered preventive services. This ste...

How the Affordable Care Act is helping small businesses

You desperately want to change careers, but don’t want to risk it knowing you may lose your health insurance. You’ve thought about heading out on your own, but you know you couldn’t afford insur...

The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on State Budgets

States’ experience shows that Medicaid expansion at the enhanced federal match can generate state savings across multiple budget areas. Those savings can be substantial, offsetting most or all of th...

Options to Generate the State Share of Medicaid Expansion Costs

In 2020, states that expanded Medicaid will be required to pay for 10 percent of the program’s costs, with the federal government picking up the remaining 90 percent of the costs of Medicaid expansi...

State Plan Amendment vs Medicaid 1115 Waiver Process and Timelines

As more states consider expanding Medicaid, it is important for legislators and policy-makers to understand that adding expansion features which require federal approval—like a work ...

State Plan Amendment Approval Time Frames

There are various ways that states can change their Medicaid program. A change that complies with Medicaid law, such as a straight Medicaid expansion like those approved in recent ballot initiatives i...

Innovative Options to Cut Health Insurance Costs by Expanding the Circle of Coverage

This report explores near-term state options for lowering insurance costs in the individual market by expanding the circle of coverage, focusing on policy approaches that are innovative, practical, an...

How Does Graham-Cassidy Compare to Previous Repeal Bills?

Graham-Cassidy has the same destructive elements that senators of both parties and the American people rejected earlier this year. Learn more. The majority of people in this country want Congress ...

Association and Short-Term Health Plans: A Lose-Lose Proposition

Under the guise of creating low-cost health options, the Trump administration has two new regulations that will have dire consequences for two groups: Young and healthy consumers lured into cut-r...

The Dangers of Trump Administration Junk Insurance Policies

The current market for individual insurance consists of one pool which shares risk between more and less healthy consumers. People with preexisting conditions, children with complex needs, pregnant wo...