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Changing Medicaid to a per capita cap payment system would radically change the way the program has been funded since 1965. It’s a change that would shift costs and risks to states and children,…
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 said last weekend that coverage wasn’t…
House Republican leadership has just released their plan for health care "reform." The plan includes sweeping changes to Medicaid that would end the Medicaid expansion's extra payments to states, effectively ending the program. It also ends…
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. This would…
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 Americans and one…
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; Shannon Attanasio, Government Affairs Director; Patrick Willard, Campaigns, Outreach, and…
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 what…
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 expansion has helped over 305,000 Bayou State residents…
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 in the program…
Last month, Kentucky asked the federal government for approval to make significant and troubling changes to its highly successful Medicaid expansion program. To justify its request, the state asserted that these changes would help “break the…