Insights Column

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...

Actually Mr. President, the Affordable Care Act Has Been a Huge Success in Kentucky

In his address to Congress last night, President Donald Trump repeated the falsehood that the Affordable Care Act is “failing” in Kentucky. Trump was quoting Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin who ...

Healthy and Wealthy Benefit under the House Republicans’ Affordable Care Act Repeal Plan

If you have money and don’t get sick, you’ll like the new bill House Republicans released last night that repeals the Affordable Care Act. This bill benefits the wealthy and healthy at the expense...

If Republicans End the Medicaid Expansion: Arizona’s Cautionary Tale

A key way the Affordable Care Act (ACA) helped the United States reach a dramatic drop in the uninsured rate was by expanding the Medicaid program to low and moderate income adults. Despite this suc...

Why the Republican Health Care Bill Won’t Fully Protect People with Pre-Existing Conditions

The Republican bill in the House of Representatives to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), will make it vastly more expensive for anyone who needs health care, particu...