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Arkansas’ Medicaid Work Reporting Rules Lead to Staggering Health Coverage Losses
Earlier this week, the state of Arkansas released its final round of data for 2018 for its controversial work reporting requirement policy. The data shows that an additional 1,232 adults lost their Medicaid coverage at the end of December, bringing the total Medicaid coverage loss since August to 18,164. The news motivated me to take […]
Trump is looking for a new way to cut Medicaid — without Congress
Vox By: Dylan Scott Two years in, senior Trump administration officials are still hunting for new ways to cut Medicaid. … Work requirements, in other words, could become a tool by which states can partially roll back Medicaid expansion or implement a neutered version of it. The same could be said of waiver provisions that […]
Researchers Estimate up to 13,000 Would Lose Medicaid Coverage Under Oklahoma Work Requirements
Public Radio Tulsa By: Matt Trotter Oklahoma wants adult Medicaid recipients to submit proof they’re working, volunteering or job training 20 hours a week. That could cause 4,000 to 13,000 people to lose coverage, according to Georgetown University researchers. “Because Oklahoma is a state that has not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, the […]
California Adds Its Clout to States Battling High Drug Prices
The New York Times By: Katie Thomas Gavin Newsom dived into the highly charged debate over prescription drug prices in his first week as California’s governor, vowing action on a topic that has enraged the public but has proved resistant to easy fixes. His idea: Find strength in numbers. Within hours of taking office on […]
Trump Administration Plans Effort to Let States Remodel Medicaid
Wall Street Journal By: Stephanie Armour The Trump administration is readying guidance that could let states remodel their Medicaid programs to more closely resemble block grant proposals favored by Republicans during their failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, according to people familiar with the discussions. … “Whenever there has been an initiative to […]