2017
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Dr. Shetal Shah and Dr. Heather Brumberg: Two Pediatricians Look At Medicaid “Reform”
Tulsa World By: Dr. Shetal Shah and Dr. Heather Brumberg House Republican Speaker, Paul Ryan, released the proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act, by converting it into a a block grant system that will limit states on their federal budget spending. The pediatricians who wrote this article feel that this new proposal is ignoring…
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The Republican Plan To Slash Medicaid, Explained
Vox By: Dylan Matthews The American Health Act, bill proposed by the House Republicans to replace the Affordable Care Act, will possibly leave about 6 million low-income Americans without health insurance, as they received the health care coverage benefits under the Medicaid expansion in their respective states. … Joan Alker, a Medicaid expert at Georgetown University,…
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Republican Health Plan Advances Amid Questions On Impact, Cost
Atlanta Journal Constitution By: Misty Williams and Craig Schneider Since the House Republicans released their proposed plan, American Health Care Act, to replace the Affordable Care Act, Georgia’s low-income older population could lose their health care coverage. However, the American Health Care Act still needs to be approved by Democrats, health care providers and lawmakers,…
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Medicaid Provides Economic Security For Families
Our new fact sheet summarizes research on how Medicaid provides economic security for families. By making health insurance accessible to children and parents, Medicaid keeps families healthy and also protects them from financial hardship. That economic security has the added benefit of insulating children from some of the adverse experiences of growing-up in poverty that…
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Up All Night
By Rylin Rodgers, Riley Child Development Center When was the last time you were up all night worrying about something? I hope you had to think hard in order to answer that one because it’s been a while. For most of us, though, it probably wasn’t that long ago. Most of us have the experience of…
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Three Paragraphs In The GOP’s Medicaid Plan That Could Raise Costs For The Poor
STAT News By: Dylan Scott The bill proposed by the House Republicans to replace the Affordable Care Act will stop the services and opportunities Medicaid has provided for the low-income population. Tricia Brooks, from CCF, mentioned that there are still many Americans that do not know they are eligible for Medicaid until they face a…
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Will The Republican Health Plan Make You Richer Or Poorer?
Deseret News By: Jennifer Graham The new bill proposed by House Republicans, the American Health Care Act, is intended to replace the Affordable Care Act by mainly changing the funding of health coverage for the low-income population. … Medicaid, which covers one in five Americans, is administered by the states, with funding from the federal…
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20 Years, Thousands of Kids, One Great Idea: ARKids First Marks 20 Years
Arkansas Public Media By: Ann Kenda House Republicans released their proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act, and the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is instead celebrating that they decreased by 25% the number of uninsured children. Elisabeth Burak, from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, mentioned that the plan proposed by the…
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Medicaid: How Does It Provide Economic Security for Families?
Research shows that Medicaid coverage improves numerous indicators of economic security for beneficiaries. By making health insurance accessible to children and parents, Medicaid keeps families healthy and also protects them from financial hardship. For millions of families, Medicaid is a lifeline that keeps them living above the poverty threshold.
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Why “State Flexibility” Won’t Do the Trick to Implement Medicaid Cuts
There has always been a lot of overheated rhetoric about state flexibility in the Medicaid program, but at no point has it been more important to unpack that concept than now. With the House and Senate poised to act on a bill which caps the Medicaid program for the first time in its history, proponents…
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What Happens If GOP Health-Care Bill Freezes Medicaid? Possibly The Same Thing That Happened In Arizona Before
The Arizona Republic By: Ken Alltucker Arizona’s Medicaid expansion will be removed as of 2020 because of the House Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. This bill will also reduce the subsidies that aided lower-income Americans to gain health coverage, therefore, there will be a decrease in Americans with health insurance overall. ……
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What Does House ACA Repeal Proposal Mean for Children and Families?
As the House of Representatives moves with rapid speed to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the public can finally get a glimpse of their plan – though the public still needs a lot more information about the proposal and the “intended” and “unintended” consequences it would have for children and families. The…
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Experts Weigh HIP 2.0’s Fate Under the Proposed Republican ACA Replacement
WMOT By: Sarah Fentem The bill released by House Republicans to replace the Affordable Care Act will stop any incoming Americans from enrolling as of 2020. Joan Alker, CCF’s executive director, mentioned that if a terrible health crisis were to happen, the populations that will no longer have access to health care services will have…
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Medicaid Spending Caps In GOP Health Plan Could Be Costly For Florida, Experts Say
Miami Herald By: Daniel Chang and Tony Pugh The American Health Care Act bill proposed by the House Republicans to replace and repeal the Affordable Care Act will severely affect Florida, because 4.3 million of Florida’s residents depend on Medicaid – and the bill intends to take those benefits away. This is so because the bill…
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What The Obamacare Replacement Bill Means Depends On How You Get Your Coverage
FiveThirtyEight By: Anna Maria Barry-Jester House Republicans released their plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, but they will not be able to remove the whole law, since they would need support from Democrats. However, the changes proposed will definitively diminish the number of Americans that are received health care insurance as of now, thanks to…
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Republicans’ Changes to Medicaid Could Have Larger Impact Than Their Changes to Obamacare
The New York Times By: Haeyoun Park By replacing the Affordable Care Act, Republicans will try to change the financing provided by the federal government to Medicaid, which is currently providing health coverage to 74 million Americans. Although these changes will occur after 2020, with this decision of decreasing the financing methods to cover Medicaid,…
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ACA Repeal Would Also Impact Kids Who Get Health Coverage Through Parent’s Employer
We often talk about how Medicaid is the MVP for children’s coverage – and it is – covering 37 million children today in Medicaid directly plus over half of children whose coverage is paid for by CHIP, for a total of 42 million kids. But if you look at public and private sources of coverage,…
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Arkansas Governor Seeks New Restrictions On Medicaid Plan
The Olympian By: Andrew Demillo With Republicans repealing the Affordable Care Act, Arkansas would be removing approximately 60,000 people from its hybrid Medicaid expansion. This will definitively put Arkansas at risk, and Joan Alker and Marquita Little, from CCF and Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, respectively, are very concerned about the future for this…
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The GOP Wants to Give States More Medicaid Power. This Is What They May Do With It.
Governing By: Mattie Quinn President Trump has made it very clear that he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, by allowing states to have more power and flexibility to decide how they want to go about Medicaid and their healthcare plans in their state in particular. However, this will have many implications – especially…
