The Salt Lake Tribune By: Sarah Leetham The Medicaid program will celebrate its 55th anniversary on July 30, the date that Congress authorized the Social Security Act in 1965… Individuals who have Medicaid coverage are also more likely than the uninsured to have a regular source of care and obtain their preventive care services during […]
TIME By: William Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove As the coronavirus surges across the U.S., states across the South and West have reported sharp increases in their daily number of new cases. Many of these same states refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, denying access to health care to hundreds of thousands […]
KCUR By: Celia Llopis-Jepsen A vicious bout of coronavirus hospitalized Anil Gharmalkar in April.The 41-year-old got severely ill, quickly. His besieged lungs fought for enough oxygen to survive. His local hospital in rural southeast Kansas put him on a ventilator and rushed him by helicopter to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, […]
L.A. Times By: Rachel Bluth and Angela Hart The predictions were dire: Coronavirus lockdowns would put millions of Americans out of work, stripping them of their health insurance and pushing them into Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income people. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration projected that the pandemic would force about 2 million […]
Fierce Healthcare By: Robert King Insurers are worried a raft of proposed changes to the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program could lead to drug manufacturers gaming the system to charge higher prices.… “The rule does not set a time limit on when manufacturers have to revise their best price reporting under a [value-based payment] arrangement—the current […]
The 74 By: Edwin Park K-12 education and Medicaid are often cast as competing state budget priorities. Amid the calamitous loss of tax revenue in the coronavirus health and economic crisis, look for fiscal conservatives to cite their support for schools as they make arguments for cutting Medicaid spending. But a new analysis for the […]
