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Budget Proposal Would Allow States To Drop Medicaid Transportation Benefits Across The Entire Program

Budget Proposal Would Allow States To Drop Medicaid Transportation Benefits Across The Entire Program Without Precedent The need for transportation among Medicaid enrollees is so widespread that e...

Nothing Good in Mississippi’s ‘Fix’ for Medicaid Waiver

Mississippi is a state where parents must have extremely low incomes to qualify for Medicaid. And adults without kids who are not elderly cannot qualify for Medicaid at all, adults unless they have So...

Let’s Untangle the Red Tape in State Medicaid Proposals

Summer isn’t over, but the comment periods for three critical state Medicaid proposals will end before Labor Day. Each of the proposals will mean more red tape and frustrations for families seeking ...

Free or Subsidized Health Coverage Available to Most Uninsured African Americans through Affordable Care Act

Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report on the benefits of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that gave more than 4 million uninsured African Americans one more ...

Four States to Decide About Medicaid Expansion During Midterm Elections

The fate of Medicaid expansion in Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, and Montana lies in the hands of voters with less than two weeks left until Election Day. Advocates, volunteers, and grassroots organizers ...

The Tide is Turning Against Medicaid Work Requirement Waivers

Since July, a grim drumbeat has sounded from Arkansas: thousands of people losing their health insurance every month, disenrolled from Medicaid and “locked out” from rejoining until next year. Thi...

Medicaid Waivers Restricting Adult Eligibility: A Legal And Political Update

NOTE: This blog was orginally published in Health Affairs on January 24, 2019. Following the new Trump administration’s public solicitation of work requirement waivers in a letter to governo...

Utah Legislators are Hiding the Ball in Effort to Repeal Voter-Approved Medicaid Expansion Ballot

The Utah Senate approved a bill this week that would repeal and replace the voter-approved Medicaid expansion ballot initiative, Proposition 3, which passed with 54 percent of the vote in Utah’s e...

Medicaid Plans Under Scrutiny

State health plans for families are under scrutiny – in the courts, in the states, and in Washington. It is hard to think of a time when the Medicaid program was getting so much attention at one tim...

Continuous Coverage Requirements: A More Harmful, Less Effective Mandate

People with pre-existing conditions, low-income consumers, and others would not fare well under the continuous coverage provisions contained in both Speaker Paul Ryan’s bill to repeal the Affordable...