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The Health 202: Trump can enforce his ‘public charge’ immigration crackdown — for now
The Washington Post By: Paige Winfield Cunningham President Trump has made it a habit of running to the Supreme Court for help in buttressing his controversial new policies. The latest example: The court’s 5-4 order yesterday allowing his administration to begin implementing new “public charge” rules. These rules will make it harder for immigrants to…
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Nebraska Two-Tiered Approach to Medicaid Expansion
Modern Healthcare By: Michael Brady Nebraska’s two-tiered approach to Medicaid expansion has spawned interest among health wonks because its work requirement could stand up to legal scrutiny… “Does this comport with the objectives of the Medicaid program, which is to provide health coverage to vulnerable people?” said Joan Alker, executive director and a co-founder of the…
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New report finds fewer Ohio children have health insurance
WTOL By: Michael Tatar A new alarming report has Ohio health officials looking for answers after it revealed the number of children in Ohio without health insurance grew for the second year in a row. The study, conducted by Georgetown University, shows nearly 12,000 more children under the age of six without insurance in 2018,…
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Editorial: Prospects for long-term health in the US continue to decline
The Columbus Dispatch By: Editorial Board For a state and nation already on notice that our long-term health is deteriorating, news at the beginning of this week sounded disturbing wakeup calls. The health of millennials is worse than the Generation Xers that they follow; and a 40% increase in uninsured rates for the youngest Ohioans —…
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New Resource Highlights What Works for Healthy Social and Emotional Development of Young Children
As more states look to support healthy social and emotional development of young children and their families, the experts at the National Center for Children in Poverty recently launched a database that combines descriptions of research-informed policies and programs that support infant and early childhood mental health with profiles of model states implementing them. The…
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Providing Health Insurance for Kids
The Intelligencer By: Editorial Board It appears there are more avenues than ever for states to ensure as many children as possible are covered by health insurance. So why were nearly 12,000 fewer Ohio youngsters covered in 2018 than in 2016? In 2016, 3.6% of Ohio children were not covered by health insurance, the Georgetown…
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Cause for alarm: Thousands more Ohio children have lost health insurance
The Columbus Dispatch By: Cathy Candisky In the Buckeye State, nearly 12,000 more infants, toddlers and preschoolers were without coverage in 2018 than two years earlier. Advocates are urging Gov. Mike DeWine’s administration to improve and promote access to the tax-funded coverage… In the Buckeye State, nearly 12,000 more infants, toddlers and preschoolers were without…
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Report Shows Tens of Thousands of Arkansas Children Are Uninsured
KUAF Public Radio By: Jacqueline Froelich A new report by Georgetown University Center for Children and Families reveals that millions of American children are uninsured — a trend reversal — including tens of thousands of children in Arkansas. … Tune in here!
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In the Ozarks, a Free Clinic that Wants to Go out of Business
KBIA Public Radio By: Sebastian Martinez Valdivia Trucks hauling timber out of the Ozarks flew by on Route 60, which runs right through the town of 2,700. The clinic sits next to the First Baptist Church, which donated the building. It’s open once a week, and… it’s free… Joan Alker heads the Center for Children…
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Missouri Leads Nation In Rising Numbers Of Uninsured Children
St. Louis Public Radio By: Sarah Fentem Missouri had the highest increase in the rate of uninsured children in the nation over the two-year period that ended in 2018, according to a study from Georgetown University… It’s becoming more difficult for parents to sign up and keep families enrolled in health coverage, especially publicly funded programs such…
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CMS Gets Closer to Issuing Medicaid Block-Grant Guidance
Politico Pulse By: Dan Diamond CMS Administrator Seema Verma plans to issue a letter soon explaining how states could seek 1115 waivers to receive defined payments for adults covered by Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, your PULSE author scooped. … But the plan is guaranteed to face immediate legal challenges, with advocates already staking out arguments against…
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Trump Poised To Kick Off Election-Year Fight Over Medicaid
The Hill By: Nathaniel Weixel The Trump administration is poised to kick off a major partisan feud over Medicaid in 2020, as officials are reportedly planning to soon introduce a way for states to block grant Medicaid money. The guidance, which The Wall Street Journal said could be released as early as this month, will…
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In Texas, Thousands of Kids Lose Medicaid Coverage Each Month
Texas Observer By: Sophie Novack It’s becoming a familiar scene across Texas: a parent brings her child to the doctor for a checkup. She signs in at the front desk. Only then does she learn that her child has been kicked off her health insurance—a casualty of missing paperwork and hoops she didn’t know existed.…
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MACPAC Watching CMMI Model On Maternal Care For Moms With SUDs
Inside Health Policy By: Chelsea Cirruzo Congress’ Medicaid advisors are carefully watching a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation model to see how it improves maternal health for mothers with substance use disorders as it gets underway this year, and suggested they might weigh in to highlight the authority states already have to reshape their…
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Comments to CMS on Proposed Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation (MFAR)
The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families submitted the following comments to federal CMS on the proposed Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation (MFAR). Georgetown-CCF-Comments-to-CMS-MFAR-CMS–2393–P
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Some Big Health Care Policy Changes Are Hiding In The Federal Spending Package
NPR By: NPR Staff Congress is set to pass a $1.4 trillion spending package this week, which President Trump has said he’ll sign. The legislation includes policy changes and funding increases that public health advocates are celebrating, as well as the permanent repeal of three key taxes that were designed to pay for Obamacare —…
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Why are so many children losing health care? Yes, politics
Boston Globe By: Joan Alker Imagine taking a sick child to the doctor or the emergency room only to find that your insurance has lapsed. That is happening to thousands of families whose children are covered by Medicaid as they are required to submit more paperwork, verify their income more frequently and comply with unreasonable deadlines they don’t…
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South Carolina Is the 10th State to Impose Medicaid Work Requirements
New York Times By: Abby Goodnough Although the courts have so far blocked President Trump’s attempts to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, his administration announced on Thursday that it would allow a 10th state, South Carolina, to condition Medicaid eligibility for many poor adults on proving that they work or engage in other activities, like volunteering… “You’re going…
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Young children lost health insurance faster in Missouri than in any other state
Springfield News Leader By: Austin Huguelet Georgetown University researchers had some bad news for the Show-Me State this past week. In a study published Monday, researchers found the percentage of young children without health insurance rose faster in Missouri than in any other state from 2016-2018, putting the state in the vanguard of a troubling nationwide…
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South Carolina Punishes Poor Parents for Christmas
New York Magazine By: Sarah Jones Days after the Trump administration finalized a proposal that will kick hundreds of thousands of people off food stamps, the state of South Carolina delivered its own special holiday present to the poor. On Thursday afternoon, Seema Verma, the director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, joined…
