2017
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Trump Wants To Make Medicaid Recipients Work To Get Benefits. That’s a very bad idea.
Vox By: Dylan Matthews The new administrator for Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services, Seems Verma, and the new Health and Human Services Secretary, Tom Price, have promised to state governors flexibility in providing Medicaid benefits to the poor, elderly, and disabled, because they want to take into consideration innovations that aid and promote human…
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Gov. Herbert Urges Utah Families To Enroll Children In CHIP Health Insurances
KUTV By: Sara Weber According to CCF and the National Council of La Raza, 23.4% of Hispanic children are uninsured, which makes Utah the state with the lowest rate of insured Hispanic children. … The Georgetown Center for Children and Families and the National Council of La Raza finds that 23.4 percent of Hispanic children in…
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Survey Offers More Proof that Dental Coverage Counts
This was initially posted on the Children’s Dental Health Project blog by Matt Jacob A new national survey of U.S. parents shows that children without dental insurance were twice as likely as insured kids to have had a recent toothache or other dental problem that affected their ability to eat, sleep or concentrate in school. The…
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AAP’s Bright Futures Takes Step Forward to Incorporate Social Determinants of Health
A child’s healthy development is influenced by access to health care but also by the social and physical environment in which the child lives. There is clear scientific evidence that children who live in safe, stable, and nurturing environments are more likely to thrive. And now pediatrician-developed preventive care guidelines for children have caught up…
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More States Expanding Medicaid Could Complicate GOP’s Repeal Efforts
Morning Consult By: Mary Ellen McIntire Since the American Health Care Act failed to pass, states are now considering Medicaid expansions to raise more federal spending and diminish the chances of the Republican Party to remove Obamacare altogether. Some of the states involved in this are Kansas and Virginia. … Meanwhile, non-expansion states could face a…
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Flux Schmux—Expand Medicaid Now!
Dakota Free Press By: Cory Allen Heidelberger TrumpCare’s failure has implications for South Dakota, as it will get back to the possibility of expanding Medicaid. Health experts, such as Adam Searing from CCF, mentioned that basically now is the time to expand Medicaid, because now there will be less ‘political heat’ on this topic. ……
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Medicaid Expansion Almost a Certainty in Wake of Collapse of GOP Health Plan
Managed Care House Speaker Paul Ryan mentioned that for now, Obamacare will remain. Adam Searing, research professor at CCF, mentioned that now that Obamacare will remain, then states that did not go through with the Medicaid expansion but have the money will probably do it now. … Adam Searing, a research professor at Georgetown University’s…
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After GOP Health Bill’s Demise, More States Weigh Expanding Medicaid
The Wall Street Journal By: Stephanie Armour Now that House Speaker Paul Ryan confirmed that Obamacare will remain for the time being, it seems like a large number of states that had not yet expanded Medicaid will probably do so. This is so because they now know that the American Health Care Act will be…
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Efforts to Repeal ACA and Cap Federal Medicaid Funding Fail
Today the mad dash efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and radically restructure Medicaid came to an abrupt halt when Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump were unable to garner enough votes to pass the American Health Care Act. This bill had taken a sharp detour from the normal path to the floor…
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What’s at Stake if Essential Health Benefits are Scrapped? Pediatric Benefits, Protection from Lifetime Limits
As House leaders scramble to get enough votes to send the American Health Care Act to the Senate, there is a lot of horse-trading going on. None of it to the benefit of kids enrolled in Medicaid or private insurance. The most recent Affordable Care Act provision on the chopping block is the Essential Health…
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What’s at Stake for Schools and Students in Health Care Debate?
As Congress considers how to reform the nation’s health care system, the decisions made on Capitol Hill could well have a profound impact on schools and their most vulnerable students. How? The most obvious answer is financial. By now we know that Congress is not content to simply repeal the health care plan then-President Barack…
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Missing Out On New Health Coverage: Four States Where The Debate Around The GOP’s Health Care Bill Is Hurting Efforts To Close The Medicaid Coverage Gap
While the ultimate outcome for the GOP health care bill is unclear here in Washington, the uncertainty created by the legislation is already having an adverse effect on attempts to expand coverage in four states. Idaho, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kansas all have had robust discussions over the past year about joining the other 32 states…
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GOP Health Plan Aims To Curb Medicaid, Expand State Options
Kaiser Health News By: Phil Galewitz The Republican party’s proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act intends to decrease expansion of Medicaid by decreasing federal funding, which could leave thousands of Americans without health care coverage. Not only that, but it could also diminish benefits for those who will be able to afford the new…
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Health Proposal Breaks Long-standing Bipartisan Commitment to Children’s Health
With virtually no time to unpack the provisions in the Manager’s Amendment that was released late Monday night and no CBO score expected until just before the vote, it appears that the House is on the verge of voting to repeal not just the Affordable Care Act, but also break the long-standing bipartisan promise of…
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Covering Parents Helps Kids
While historic progress has been made in lowering the number of uninsured children in the United States, the number of uninsured parents – almost 12 million in 2010—has soared as fewer employers offered their workers health insurance and strict eligibility limits were in place for adults in need of Medicaid coverage. The Affordable Care Act…
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Proposed Medicaid Changes May Complicate KanCare Expansion Effort
The Kansas City Star By: Hunter Woodall and Lindsay Wise The American Health Care Act proposed by the Republican party to replace the Affordable Care Act intends to stop Medicaid expansion. However, it has had difficulty finding support, even within the Republican party. As Adam Searing, research professor at Georgetown University’s CCF, they plan to…
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Health Coverage for Parents and Caregivers Helps Children
Children’s healthy development depends to a large extent on the health and well-being of their parents and caregivers. Covering parents and caregivers helps children get the care and family financial stability they need to thrive.
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The Silent Victims of the GOP Health-Care Proposal
The Atlantic By: Adrienne Lafrance The Affordable Care Act managed to provide insurance to more than 95% of America’s children nationwide, thanks to its programs such as Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program. However, the American Health Care Act proposed by the Republican party to replace the Affordable Care Act will eliminate this progress, since…
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Why the Medicaid Cap Can’t Be Fixed
Confusion reigns about the cap on federal Medicaid spending now hurtling toward the floor of the House. It’s hardly surprising that people don’t fully understand what the House bill would do to Medicaid. It is presented as “repeal and replace” of the ACA, but it goes far beyond ending the ACA Medicaid expansion for 11…
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Proposed Medicaid Spending Caps Rely on Data Points That Don’t Exist Yet
There were few details in the recent CBO score on the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as to how the $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid were calculated and where the pain will be felt. That’s because the folks at CBO, like the rest of us, are scratching their heads over where to access the…
