2017
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In Texas, People With Erratic Incomes Risk Being Cut Off From Medicaid
CNN Money By: Shefali Luthra Worries about whether her children can still get the health care they need are never far from Dawn Poole’s mind. It’s a constant, underlying concern. … Systems with such frequent checks aren’t common, says Tricia Brooks, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families. Neither she nor…
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Budget Negotiations Could Result In Reduction In Federal Money For Medicaid
KOZI The Trump-supported rollback of the Affordable Care Act would reduce federal money that 31 states have relied on to extend Medicaid coverage. And Medicaid spending would fall from two percent of the economy to 1.7 percent in 2027 due to the reductions in Trump’s budget. A new report shows Medicaid is critical for providing…
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Which Parents Would Still be Covered if Medicaid Expansion Goes Away?
Given discussions in Congress to eliminate the Medicaid expansion over time, the question has arisen as to which parents would still be covered if expansion went away. In the first year of ACA implementation, expansion states accounted for the majority of the estimated 1.1 million parents who gained coverage. And, in 2015, the uninsurance rate…
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New Analysis Finds Uninsured Rate for Kids Would Increase by 50% Under AHCA
If the Affordable Health Care Act (AHCA) becomes law, the uninsured rate for children would increase by a whopping 50% by 2026 according to a new analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The Center’s report is based on a deeper dive into the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the AHCA that was passed by…
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Medicaid Enrollment A “Lifeline” For Rural Residents, Children
HealthPayer Intelligence Medicaid enrollment rates are highest for adults and children in small town and rural areas, providing a “lifeline” for low-income beneficiaries, according to a new analysis by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and the University of North Carolina NC Rural Health Research Program. … “Medicaid is of critical importance to people living in…
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Republicans’ Health-Care Plans Could Put Premature Babies And Other Vulnerable Children At Risk
Rewire By: S.E. Smith With Senate Republicans threatening to push their version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) to a vote before Independence Day, the future of U.S. health care is uncertain. Although the Senate is being secretive about its version of the bill, the extensive proposed changes in the House’s version could roll…
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Medicaid Overhaul Faces Tough Test In Trump Country
Politico Pro By: Rachana Pradhan The Trump administration’s planned overhaul of Medicaid is running into the unforgiving reality of impoverished small towns like this one, which voted overwhelmingly for President Donald Trump. … In Magoffin County, where a third of residents live in poverty, the uninsured rate among adults dropped from 32 percent to 12…
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What’s At Stake For Children’s Health Care?
PBS By: Laura Santhanam For months, the Trump administration and Congress have debated the future of health care, including nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, which has enrolled nearly 37 million children. By comparison, 8.4 million children have been enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program and its funding is up for reauthorization in September. ……
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CMS Does Not Appear to Be Honoring Public Comment Requirement on Indiana Medicaid Waiver Request
My top-notch intern is checking the CMS website every day, and it looks like Friday June 9th, after regular business hours, federal CMS did two things with respect to Indiana’s desire to impose a work requirement on certain Medicaid beneficiaries and make other changes to their Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) 2.0 program. First, CMS certified the application…
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Indiana Skipped Legal Steps In Requesting Medicaid Waiver
Modern Healthcare By: Virgil Dickson Indiana has opened up its pending request for a Medicaid work requirement to legal challenges by skipping a crucial step in the submission process. … “This appears to be a reversal of that policy,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families. “That is a…
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The Risk of Letting Politicians, Not Pediatricians, Determine Children’s Health Care
Fifty years ago, after learning that half the young men drafted for the Vietnam War failed baseline health exams, the federal government instituted Medicaid’s comprehensive, pediatrician-recommended benefit standard for children known as Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT). The federal benefit standard in Medicaid ensures that low-income and vulnerable children receive the health care services…
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Connecting the Dots: Capping Medicaid, Closing Rural Hospitals, and Stranding Rural Children and Families
The Senate was designed by our founding fathers to protect less populated states. Few would dispute that over the decades, the Senate has faithfully executed that institutional mission, especially when it comes to health policy. So it is completely mystifying that the Senate, according to all reports, is seriously considering capping federal Medicaid payments to…
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At Risk: Medicaid’s Child-Focused Benefit Structure Known as EPSDT
The federal benefit standard in Medicaid ensures that low-income and vulnerable children receive the health care services they need to grow and thrive. But this standard is at risk. Proposed cuts to Medicaid and CHIP funding could make EPSDT unaffordable to states, and in turn, proposed changes to federal policy, including legislative and administrative action, could potentially…
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How Trump’s Budget Could Take Healthcare Away From Children
Paste Magazine By: Savannah McCoy President Trump’s proposed budget cuts include cutting into the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid. … Trump believes his budget will trim unnecessary spending, but others, such as Joan Alker, the director of Georgetown University’s Children and Families Center, think the cuts will create more harm than good. “To…
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Big Federal Data Program May Come Too Late For Medicaid Debate
Politico Pro By: David Pittman CMS is three years behind on the creation of a $100 million database that could answer policy questions of deep relevance in Congress today and of pressing importance to the future of Medicaid. … “These larger data systems turn out to be more challenging I think than anticipated,” said Tricia…
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Report: Rural Areas Would Be Most Impacted By Medicaid Cuts
Mankato Free Press By: Brain Arola Proposed cuts to Medicaid would disproportionately impact children and adults in rural areas and small towns, according to a report released Wednesday. … The analysis from researchers at Georgetown University and the University of North Carolina used census data to compare Medicaid enrollment and uninsured rates before and after…
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Healthcare Challenges Facing Rural Communities
The Jackson Sun By: Omer Yusuf The Jackson Sun co-sponsored a public forum with the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families on “Tennessee’s Rural Health Crisis” to address the various health care issues in rural communities. … Andy Schneider, a research professor at the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, presented at…
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Trump’s Base In Rural America Could Be Disproportionately Hurt By Medicaid Cuts
The Washington Post By: Jose A. DelReal The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion disproportionately benefited rural Americans over their urban counterparts, according to a new report, and President Trump’s proposed cuts to the program could negatively affect millions of them who have come to rely on it for coverage. … The ACA, better known as…
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GOP Medicaid Cuts Hit Rural America Hardest, Report Finds
Kaiser Health News By: Phil Galewitz Trump Country it may be, but rural counties and small towns also make up Medicaid Country — those parts of the nation whose low-income children and families are most dependent on the federal-state health insurance program, according to a report released Wednesday. … “There is no doubt that children…
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Medicaid Plays A More Significant Role In Small Towns And Rural Communities Than In Metro Areas
Wire Update Medicaid plays a larger role in providing health coverage to people living in small towns and rural communities than it does in metropolitan areas, a trend that is particularly striking among children, according to an extensive analysis by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and the University of North Carolina NC Rural Health Research Program.…
