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Arkansas Children Lacking Health Insurance on the Rise
KATV By: Zack Briggs A new study indicates youth without health insurance across the nation including Arkansas increased from 2016 to 2017. The report, which was conducted by the Georgetown University Center, shows the number of children under age 19 rose an estimated 276,000 to 3.92 million. That’s a “historic low” of 4.7 percent in…
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Number of uninsured children rising in Mass.
The Daily News of Newburyport By: Christian M. Wade The number of children without health insurance is rising in Massachusetts for the first time in years, according to a report that blames divisive national politics for the reversal. An estimated 20,000 children in the state didn’t have health insurance in 2017, an increase of about…
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Amy Klobuchar: Number, rate of children without insurance rises
PolitiFact By: Jon Greenberg The uninsurance rate is one of the main barometers for how the country is doing on health care. In that vein, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., sounded the alarm. “After a decade of progress, the rate of uninsured children is now rising,” Klobuchar tweeted Dec. 3. “This is very troublesome. Every child…
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Is the U.S. Health Care System Trending the Wrong Way?
Politico By: Dan Diamond Youth uninsured numbers: going up. ACA enrollment: sharply down. Life expectancy: still sliding. A series of recent reports are showing cracks in the nation’s public health, and it’s not clear if the Trump administration’s policies are helping. “To borrow Ronald Reagan’s line, is the health care system better off than it…
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Proposed Changes to Medicaid Managed Care Rule Will Reduce Access to Providers
One year ago, CMS Administrator Seema Verma gave a major policy address to state Medicaid directors in which she promised to “rollback burdensome regulations that the federal government has imposed on states.” She specifically targeted two, both of which were issued by the prior administration: the Access Rule (November 2015), and the Managed Care Rule…
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Military Kids Need Medicaid Too
By: LCDR Anthony P. Putney, USN (ret.) — Father and caregiver to Lily I’m a veteran of the United States Navy, a nurse and parent to four children along with my wife, Carie. I work hard today to provide for my family, and I spent 23 years in active service to the nation. Knowing all this,…
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Under Trump, the number of uninsured kids is suddenly rising
Vox The number of uninsured children in America is on the rise. An estimated 3.9 million children were uninsured in 2017, according to new research from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, up from 3.6 million in 2016. Every state saw an increase in their share of uninsured children; Washington, D.C. did not. Two charts tell the story:…
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CMS Unveils Proposed Changes to Part D Drug Policies
MedPage Today The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced several new policies aimed at lowering drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries, but critics say the savings may be quite modest and that the proposals may reduce beneficiaries’ access to needed drugs. “Foremost in our mind was the impact on patients and ensuring affordability and…
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Researchers find 276,000 more kids uninsured in Trump’s first year in office
ABC News The number of children who are uninsured in the U.S. is on the rise for the first time in nearly a decade, with 276,000 more children going without insurance in President Donald Trump’s first year in office than in 2016, according to findings released Thursday by Georgetown University. Researchers and anti-poverty advocates say it’s…
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Under Trump, Number Of Uninsured Kids Rose For First Time This Decade
Kaiser Health News After years of steady decline, the number of U.S. children without health insurance rose by 276,000 in 2017, according to a Georgetown University report released Thursday. While not a big jump statistically — the share of uninsured kids rose to 5 percent in 2017 from 4.7 percent a year earlier — it is still…
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Another Place for Medicaid Attention: Young Children’s Social Emotional Development
Early childhood mental health is not as widely understood and does not look the same as mental health challenges for older children or adults. But there’s good news: effective, evidence-informed, and promising interventions that support infant and toddlers’ mental health are available. That’s where Medicaid can help. Our latest paper, Using Medicaid to Ensure the…
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New Report Shows Progress on Children’s Health Coverage Reversed Course
[Editor’s Note: For the most recent Georgetown University Center for Children and Families report on children’s health coverage and an interactive version of the report with state-by-state data, click here.] For the past eight years, CCF has published a report tracking health coverage rates for children across the country. This year, for the first time…
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Midterm Elections Improve Prospects for Medicaid Expansion in North Carolina
The loss of Republican supermajorities in the North Carolina House and Senate in the recent midterms was the first sign of an improving climate for expanding Medicaid in the Tarheel state. Now when Democratic Governor Roy Cooper exercises his veto power, Democrats in the legislature can block legislation – including the annual state budget bill…
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Surprise! CMS Approves Kentucky Work Requirement Waiver Again
Yesterday, CMS reapproved the Kentucky work requirement waiver. The reapproval comes less than two weeks after Congress’s Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) wrote a letter to the Secretary of HHS asking for a pause in disenrollments resulting from the Arkansas work requirement waiver, less than a week after Arkansas announced that over…
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Using Medicaid to Ensure the Healthy Social and Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers
Part I: Executive Summary Each child’s social-emotional development underpins overall development and greatly influences his or her lifelong trajectory. Infants and toddlers experience a period of rapid brain development marked by great possibility and vulnerability, depending on their family and community contexts. The first years of life are particularly crucial to a child’s development of…
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Nation’s Progress on Children’s Health Coverage Reverses Course
Introduction For the first time since comparable data was first collected in 2008, the nation’s steady progress in reducing the number of children without health insurance reversed course. The number of uninsured children under age 19 nationwide increased by an estimated 276,000 to about 3.9 million (3,925,000) in 2017, according to newly-available data from the…
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Advocates Lambast Growing Number of Uninsured in Arkansas Due to Work Rules
AJMC Managed Markets Network By: Allison Inserro Arkansas said this week it removed more than 12,000 people from its Medicaid expansion program over the past 3 months for not complying with work and community engagement requirements, and another 6000 are at risk of losing their health coverage by December. On Friday, the executive director of…
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Louisiana Medicaid Audit Report Misses the Mark
A recent legislative audit of the adult Medicaid expansion in Louisiana compares apples and oranges to arrive at a conclusion that millions of dollars were paid on behalf of Medicaid enrollees who did not qualify. But is it accurate to characterize these individuals as ineligible? No, not when you consider the flexibility states have in…
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12K have lost Arkansas Medicaid coverage over work rule
The Associated Press By: Andrew DeMillo Arkansas removed more than 12,000 people from its expanded Medicaid program over the past three months for not complying with a new work requirement, the state said Thursday. Another 6,000 are at risk of losing coverage by December if they don’t find work. The state Department of Human Services…
