2017
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Medicaid Fulfills Crucial Role for Children with Special Health Care Needs Like My Daughter
My daughter Caroline is alive because of Medicaid. The medications, the equipment and the nursing care that have helped us manage her severe disability would not be possible without the federal program’s support. Now, with Congress and the White House considering cuts and restructuring for Medicaid, it’s important to consider children like Caroline. We welcomed…
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Further State Funding Cuts and Uncertain Federal Landscape Threaten Care for Young Children in Texas with Disabilities and Developmental Delays
Texas’ early childhood intervention system has not kept pace with other states in the share of young children it serves. And with state policy changes and possible federal proposals, the program could find it more difficult to meet the needs of young children with disabilities and delays who need these critical services.
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Federal Medicaid Cuts Would Be a Double Whammy for Vulnerable Young Children in Texas
Lately, we’ve been laser focused on potential threats ahead at the federal level. But as state legislative sessions start anew, it’s a good reminder that policymaking swirls ahead in state capitals as well. As our friends at Texans Care for Children described, last year’s Medicaid therapy cuts in Texas are already shutting out some young children…
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Complicated Cassidy-Collins Plan to Replace ACA Falls Short
With pressure building around repealing the ACA without a replacement plan, various “replacement” plans are starting to pop up – most recently this bill from Senators Cassidy and Collins. Sarah Lueck at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities posted a thoughtful analysis of the bill’s key provisions and Timothy Jost offers even more details…
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Senators’ ACA Replacement Won’t Likely Give States, Patients the Choices They Seek
By Sarah Lueck, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Senators Bill Cassidy and Susan Collins say their new proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would allow people who like the coverage they have to keep it. But now that we have more details about the proposal, it’s hard to see how that could…
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Providers Could See More Money As States Assess Medicaid Network Adequacy
Modern Healthcare By: Virgil Dickson Healthcare providers could be receiving more patients, and therefore money, with the change of Medicaid network adequacy – thanks to the fee-for-service. … However, all bets are off if Congress moves forward with plans to convert Medicaid into a block grant program, said Tricia Brooks, senior fellow at Georgetown University…
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Research Documents Positive Impact of Medicaid Expansion
The future of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is unclear, but new research is making it quite clear that Medicaid expansion is a smart investment. In the last few weeks, researchers addressed several questions that many wondered about before most states implemented the expansion. Let’s take a trip down memory lane… Will expanding Medicaid…
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CCF Hosts Webinar on Medicaid and CHIP Financing
After months of vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Congress and the new administration are now signaling that they’re not going to stop there. Policymakers are already talking about capping or block granting Medicaid and holding up needed funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Such changes would leave states struggling to meet the…
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What Does President Trump’s Executive Order Mean for the Affordable Care Act?
As you may have heard, President Trump issued an executive order about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on his inauguration day, but what’s been less clear is what exactly it means. Can the President repeal the ACA by executive order? The short answer is no. The ACA became law when it was passed by Congress…
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Trump’s Health Secretary Pick Fought To Limit Coverage In One Of America’s Neediest States
Los Angeles Times By: Noam N. Levey The health secretary chosen by President-elect Trump, Rep. Tom Price, has always worked towards decreasing the healthcare coverage system. However, his state, Georgia, is in great need for improvement in that sense, as it has one of the worst health outcomes nationwide. … Research has shown that CHIP and…
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Arkansas Will be Particularly Hard Hit by Repeal of ACA
As regular readers of Say Ahhh! know, Arkansas has a unique approach to Medicaid expansion, known as “Arkansas Works” or the “private option,” which relies on the federal marketplace to provide coverage to Medicaid expansion enrollees instead of using Medicaid plans and providers to deliver coverage. As a result, the current plan by Congressional leaders…
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CBO: Repealing ACA Would Double Number of Uninsured in Two Years
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released an updated projection on how repealing the ACA through budget reconciliation would lead to rising numbers of uninsured and increases in premiums on the marketplace. CBO based projections on the Reconciliation Act passed in 2015 and vetoed by President Obama, which would have…
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How Should We Be Thinking About CHIP in the New World Order?
Recent press accounts have noted that Republicans are thinking about using the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) as a bargaining tool to entice Democrats to vote for health legislation that replaces the Affordable Care Act (ACA). CHIP’s funding expires on September 30, 2017, which means that Congress must act soon to ensure that it continues…
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Medicaid Expansion Drove Health Insurance Coverage Under Health Law, Rand Paul Says
PolitiFact By: Jon Greenberg Repealing the Affordable Care Act would remove healthcare insurance from about 20 million people that just gained insurance thanks to this healthcare law and its programs, such as Medicaid. Rand Paul, during the CNN’s State of the Union, mentioned that if any state wanted to maintain its Medicaid expansion, it would…
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Top Five Threats to Child Welfare from ACA Repeal and Proposals to Alter Medicaid
The Chronicle of Social Change By: Olivia Golden Repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave young adults aging out of foster care without health insurance. It would also make it very hard for foster care children to receive healthcare coverage. In addition, it would reduce health and mental health coverage for adults. … The…
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Council of Economic Advisers Reports Uninsured Rate Now at Lowest Point in History
Last month, the Council of Economic Advisers released a report demonstrating that historic progress on health insurance coverage is due, in large part, to the ACA. Since the ACA took effect, an estimated 20 million additional adults gained health insurance, the children’s uninsured rate fell by almost half, and the overall uninsured rate fell to…
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What Does Senate Passage of the Budget Mean for Children and Families?
Early this morning the Senate passed its fiscal year 2017 budget, with a vote of 51-48. The budget now heads to the House for consideration and a vote, which is expected tomorrow. But what does the budget say, and more importantly, what does it mean for children and families? The budget establishes funding levels for…
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ACA Repeal Would Lavish Medicare Tax Cuts on 400 Highest-Income Households
By Brandon Debot, Chye-Ching Huang, and Chuck Marr, originally posted by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Republicans’ planned bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which is expected to be similar to the repeal bill that President Obama vetoed in January 2016, would provide an immediate windfall tax cut to the highest-income Americans…
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Kaiser Family Foundation & CCF Release 50-State Medicaid/CHIP Survey
Today, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families released their annual 50-state survey on Medicaid and CHIP eligibility, enrollment, renewal and cost-sharing policies. The survey is a “must read” report for anyone interested in health care policy and its impact on low-income children and families across the country. Tricia…
