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KOTV Oklahoma January 22, 2019 By: Grant Hermes Changes are on the way for Medicaid in Oklahoma, despite criticism and warnings from experts around the country who say new state policies and proposals could force thousands of Oklahoma families off coverage. In 2018, Oklahoma became the 11th state to call for at least 20-hours of…

Vox By: Dylan Scott Two years in, senior Trump administration officials are still hunting for new ways to cut Medicaid. … Work requirements, in other words, could become a tool by which states can partially roll back Medicaid expansion or implement a neutered version of it. The same could be said of waiver provisions that…

Public Radio Tulsa By: Matt Trotter Oklahoma wants adult Medicaid recipients to submit proof they’re working, volunteering or job training 20 hours a week. That could cause 4,000 to 13,000 people to lose coverage, according to Georgetown University researchers. “Because Oklahoma is a state that has not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, the…

The New York Times By: Katie Thomas Gavin Newsom dived into the highly charged debate over prescription drug prices in his first week as California’s governor, vowing action on a topic that has enraged the public but has proved resistant to easy fixes. His idea: Find strength in numbers. Within hours of taking office on…

Wall Street Journal By: Stephanie Armour The Trump administration is readying guidance that could let states remodel their Medicaid programs to more closely resemble block grant proposals favored by Republicans during their failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, according to people familiar with the discussions. … “Whenever there has been an initiative to…

Oklahoma Hospital Association An estimated 4,000 to 13,000 of Oklahoma’s poorest parents could lose health coverage if the federal government approves the state’s request to impose new work reporting rules on parents and caregivers receiving Medicaid, according to a new study from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. The coverage losses would predominately…

Journal Inquirer By: Zachary Vasile After a three-year-long ebb, the number of children in Connecticut without health insurance is once again rising. According to a new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, about 24,000 children in the state lacked health coverage in 2017, amounting to about 3.1 percent of all people…

Orlando Sentinel By: Naseem Miller Mary Mayhew, director of the nation’s Medicaid program, is resigning after three months on the job to become Florida’s top health regulator, the state’s governor-elect announced. As secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration, Mayhew will replace Justin Senior, who resigned in November to become CEO of the Safety…

Public News Service Connecticut is providing quality health care to more than 330,000 children but could reach more, according to a new report. The report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families ranked the state 12th in the nation for the rate of children covered by its HUSKY Health program, which includes Medicaid…

The Post and Courier By: Lauren Sausser South Carolina adults who qualify for low-income Medicaid coverage may need to prove later this year they have a job or risk losing their health benefits. Gov. Henry McMaster’s Medicaid agency is officially pursuing the rule change more than a year after President Donald Trump’s administration announced it would…

The State By: Jamie Self Thousands of South Carolina’s poorest parents will lose health insurance under a state proposal to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, a new study says. Between 5,000 and 14,000 S.C. parents would lose their Medicaid coverage in the first year such a policy is in force, according to a report…

America Magazine By: Editorial Board In November the Georgetown Center for Children and Families announced that the number of uninsured children in the United States went up for the first time in nearly a decade. While 7.6 million children were uninsured in 2008, by 2016 that figure had dropped to 3.6 million. But in 2017, 300,000 children…

Health Affairs In the partisan world of health policy, CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, had always stood out as a bipartisan exception. However, in 2017 through the early days of 2018, Congress let CHIP funding lapse for an unprecedented 114 days. After funding was restored, Tricia Brooks discussed in detail why it took so…

KUER 90.1 By: Erik Neumann Orrin Hatch authored or co-sponsored over 700 bills — more than any other living lawmaker — making him one of the health care industry’s biggest champions. As prolific as he may have been, Hatch can’t claim sole credit for his influence over the industry as his most significant legislation came by working with…

Mother Jones By: Tracie McMillan … The more likely outcome of a complicated eligibility system, regardless of who runs it, is that people leave the program, losing insurance and suffering the health effects that will cause. In June, Arkansas became the first state to implement work requirements for its Medicaid clients, spending about $7.6 million…

KJZZ 91.5 By: Mark Brodie In advance of the deadline to enroll in a health care plan on the Affordable Care Act marketplace Saturday, The Show has been talking about the issue of health care this week. More American children did not have health insurance last year than the year before — specifically, an estimated…

Boise State Public Radio By: James Dawson The number of uninsured children across the country has increased for the first time in more than a decade. Despite a strong economy and low unemployment, close to 4 million children in the U.S. do not have health insurance. In Utah that number by grew by 12,000 last…

NBC News By: Elizabeth Chuck Raquel Cruz has a lot of stress in her life. A single mother of three daughters, she is the manager of a small health clinic and is going to school full-time for an education degree. But her biggest stressor is worrying about health insurance. … Last year, the number of U.S.…