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Thousands Could Lose Coverage Under Proposed Medicaid Work Requirements
Health News Florida By: Julio Ochoa More than 100,000 low-income parents could lose health care coverage under a Medicaid work-requirement bill being considered in the Florida Legislature, experts estimate. Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families based its Florida prediction on the impact of similar policies in other states that resulted in roughly 20 percent of […]
National health policy expert Adam Searing
NC Policy Watch By: Clayton Henkel National health policy expert Adam Searing on why it’s long past time for North Carolina to join the majority of states and close the Medicaid coverage GAP. Searing with the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families also discusses President Trump’s latest promise to repeal the […]
Red states’ Medicaid gamble: Paying more to cover fewer people
Axios By: Sam Baker Red states are getting creative as they look for new ways to limit the growth of Medicaid. But in the process those states are taking legal, political and practical risks that could ultimately leave them paying far more, to cover far fewer people. … State-level Republicans are waiting for CMS to […]
Centene’s takeover of WellCare: What would it mean for kids and families covered by Medicaid?
On March 27, the Centene Corporation announced it would acquire WellCare Health Plans, Inc. in a cash and stock transaction valued at $17.3 billion. The transaction is subject to approval by the shareholders of both companies as well as state regulators. The companies “expect to complete the transaction in the first half of 2020.” For […]
New Research Documents Health Benefits of Medicaid Expansion
We like to review the research here at CCF and that certainly goes for papers examining the effects of Medicaid expansion. I pulled together a quick overview of that research last year and recently my colleague, Lauren Roygardner, has highlighted an impressive study showing Medicaid expansion improves access to treatments for opioid addiction. The studies […]