Media Coverage

Designed to Fail: Utah Republicans’ Backdoor Repeal of Voter-Approved Medicaid Expansion

Rewire News By: Adam Searing In November 2018, a majority of voters in Utah passed a Medicaid expansion ballot initiative providing Medicaid coverage to low-income people. The state’s GOP-held legislature, unhappy with the ballot results, this month overturned the robust expansion. Voters in November also approved a minuscule (0.15 percent) sales tax to pay for […]

N.H. Medicaid bid winner AmeriHealth has rocky history in Iowa

Concord Monitor By: Caitlin Andrews A company facing scrutiny for its abrupt departure from managing Iowa’s Medicaid system is one of the three private organizations chosen by New Hampshire to manage the care of 180,000 Granite Staters. … Health care policy experts say the blame doesn’t just fall on AmeriHealth. Kelly Whitener, an associate professor […]

Other states likely to follow Utah’s partial Medicaid expansion

Modern Healthcare By: Harris Meyer The Utah Legislature on Monday passed a bill to replace the voter-approved Medicaid expansion with a skinny expansion, a move that may encourage other states to seek similar scaled-back expansions with full federal funding. The Republican-controlled Utah Senate approved legislation passed by the state House of Representatives Friday that replaces the voter-passed […]