Insights Column

With Deep Medicaid Cuts, GOP Budget Guts Access to Health Care

Early this week, House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) released the Republican budget, “A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America.” But the name is a marketing ploy. A close look at the ...

Top Five Blogs So Far in 2016

We know you have a lot going on, and there isn’t always time to read everything. That’s why we’ve rounded up five of our most popular blogs published between January and March of this year: 1...

Medicaid Expansion Drives Improvements in Oregon’s Health Care System

By now the benefits of Medicaid expansion are well known. In addition to providing health coverage to millions of Americans, it has helped create new health care jobs, decrease hospitals’ spending ...

Four Provisions to Watch in the New Medicaid Managed Care Rules

On Monday, the Obama administration issued sweeping new standards for health insurers that operate Medicaid managed care plans for the states. The new rules are a big deal in part because they affe...

Health on the Hill: Good and Bad Proposals in Congress This Spring

The big news from Capitol Hill this spring comes courtesy of House Republicans, who are still mulling over plans to replace the Affordable Care Act. As we’ll explain, although no formal plan has bee...

New Push for Health Coverage for the Justice-Involved Population

The Obama administration recently took steps to help people leaving prison or jail get health coverage more easily. Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a long-awa...

Proposed Kentucky Medicaid Changes Likely to Harm Enrollees

Since he was elected in November, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has been threatening to recast a successful health care program to fit his political ideology. This week his administration released thei...

Louisiana’s Medicaid Expansion Takes Off

Beginning July 1, Louisiana will provide health coverage to more than 225,900 low-income adults after only one month of enrolling people in the state’s new Healthy Louisiana program. It is a remarka...

Missouri’s Medicaid Waiver Spends More to Provide Less

Missouri’s 1115 waiver program, named the "Missouri Mental Health Crisis Prevention Program," was recently submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and is awaiting approval....

Maryland and New York Seek to Help People Leaving Incarceration Get Health Care

When people leave prison or jail, helping them get health care is critical to ensuring they reenter their communities as seamlessly as possible. To help connect this population to health coverage, bot...