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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 success, the…
A work requirement in Medicaid is not only a bad idea, it’s unnecessary and counterproductive. It would not help move low-income people out of poverty and may actually increase poverty among many. It…
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This call discussed the Republican plan to gut the Medicaid Program and get rid of Medicaid expansion, as part of their plan to try to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Our experts on the…
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…
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…