The Incidental Economist Austin Frakt In an interview, a journalist asked me for the health care studies with greatest policy influence. I said the RAND Health Insurance Experiment and the Oregon Medicaid Study. I added there are certainly more worthy to be named, but this is not a thing my brain does so readily. … Wagnerman K, Alker […]
The Delta Discovery By: Trevor Storrs Alaska is among the top states leading a national trend in improvements to health care coverage rates for American Indian/Alaska Native children, according to a new report by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. … “At a time when Congress is considering extremely large cuts to Medicaid […]
Modern Healthcare By: Virgil Dickson Indiana has relaxed its proposal to impose a work requirement on Medicaid beneficiaries following public backlash for the new provisions. But policy experts remain concerned that access to care will suffer. … “Any work requirement is bad policy as it will be counterproductive and administratively costly and doesn’t serve the […]
South Dakota Public Broadcasting By: Lee Strubinger For about a decade the rate of uninsured Native American children in South Dakota declined by almost fifty percent. In the same period, the rate of uninsured adults went up. … That’s according to a recent study out of Georgetown University, which finds South Dakota is one of […]
Arizona Public Media By: Vanessa Barchfield Uninsured rates for Native Americans have declined significantly in Arizona and the country as a whole since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, according to a report from Georgetown University. In 2008, before Medicaid was expanded under Obamacare, 33 percent of Native American children in Arizona were uninsured. […]
The Daily World By: Noam N. Levey Communities like this aging West Virginia coal town along the Kanawha River were key to President Donald Trump’s victory last year; more than two-thirds of voters in surrounding Fayette County backed the Republican nominee. … “There is very strong return on the Medicaid investment,” said Joan Alker, executive […]
