USA Today By: Jayne O’Donnell and Ken Alltucker Samantha Bailey spends her days in a Phoenix hospital room with her 19-month-old son, Henry, waiting for a heart transplant and fretting about his health care once he gets it. … With cuts anywhere near that size, “there’s absolutely no way kids can stay out of harm’s way,” says […]
Capital & Main By: Rex Weiner If put under a large enough stethoscope and asked to cough, America would appear to require an ambulance. Amidst a dark and gathering cloud of negative indicators, death rates for cardiovascular disease and drug overdoses are up nationally, according to the United Health Foundation, and adult obesity increased 157 […]
AAP News By: Devin Miller During the conference, hosted by COFGA and the AAP Committee on State Government Affairs, participants attended interactive skills-building workshops, heard from policy experts and leaders about child health priorities, and prepared for the advocacy task at-hand: urging Congress to extend funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and keep […]
Bustle By: Jon Hecht One of the most prominent aspects of the health care bill is the $880 billion cut to Medicaid, along with changes to the program which would force states to cap their spending at certain levels. It stands in contrast to the current system, in which Medicaid covers all health care needs of […]
Vox By: Matthew Yglesias The frenetic final days of the debate over the American Health Care Act in the House of Representatives focused largely on patients with preexisting medical conditions — but not on sweeping cuts to Medicaid, which have the potential take health care from tens of millions of Americans. … However, there is […]
Becker’s ASC Review By: Eric Oliver More than half of Indiana’s 590,315 low-income beneficiaries enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program failed to make monthly payments required to receive “top tier” service, the Indy Star reports. … Washington, D.C.-based Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families Executive Director Joan Alker said to the Star, “The evaluation makes clear […]
