Media Coverage

Mississippi Today By: Larrison Campbell For months, Mississippi’s application for a program that would require certain Medicaid recipients to work has been considered a lock by supporters and opponents of the program. … Last month, Georgetown University released a detailed report on the effects of these work requirements to Medicaid beneficiaries. Joan Alker, executive director…

Herald Tribune The president and his budget director propose to rescind $15 billion in expenditures authorized by Congress — including $7 billion from the Children’s Health Insurance Program — in order to ensure the federal government “spends precious taxpayer dollars in the most efficient, effective manner possible.” … Part of the funding targeted for “rescission”…

Healthcare Dive By: Les Masterson Congress included the CHIP reauthorization as part of the two-year budget deal to avert a shutdown. This came after months of debate, discussions and fears about whether Congress would reauthorize the program for low-income children and families. … In a new blog post, Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown…

ThinkProgress By: Rebekah Entralgo The Trump administration is set to ask Congress to claw back $15 billion in federal spending. If passed, it would be the largest “rescission” package passed in American history. … According to Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, the rescission package cuts funds for two CHIP accounts: $5.1 billion authorized…

Washington Post By: Jeff Stein The Trump administration is asking Congress to approve a $7 billion cut to the Children’s Health Insurance Program as part of a package to reduce a range of previously agreed upon federal spending. … The Trump administration is asking Congress to cut about $2 billion from CHIP’s special contingency fund,…

Los Angeles Times By: Michael Hiltzik Those of us with long memories — defined in this turbocharged world as memories that date back more than 90 days — will recall that one of the biggest cliffhangers of that bygone season involved the funding of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. … The CHIP funds…

Kaiser Health News By: Phil Galewitz The Trump administration’s promise of unprecedented flexibility to states in running their Medicaid programs hit its limit Monday. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rejected a proposal from Kansas to place a three-year lifetime cap on some adult Medicaid enrollees. Since Medicaid began in 1965, no state has restricted how…

VoxCare Email Newsletter By: Dylan Scott The CMS decision to reject Kansas’s waiver is a very big deal: Lifetime limits have not gotten the same amount of attention as work requirements, but they would have signaled an equally important shift in Medicaid, away from an entitlement for all eligible Americans toward a shrinking program actively…

WLRN South Florida Incoming Florida Senate Minority Leader Audrey Gibson sent a letter Monday to the federal government accusing Gov. Rick Scott’s administration of falsifying the record to show support for a $98 million Medicaid reduction and asked for a “thorough review” of the proposed cut, which would impact an estimated 39,000 people. … Joan…

The Spokesman-Review By: Shawn Vestal As the number of people without health insurance begins to climb again, it’s worth remembering a baseline question in health care: Who pays when the patient can’t? It’s everybody else, one way or another. … Research shows clear differences between the two approaches across the country. States that expanded Medicaid…

WCBI News By: Allie Martin A proposal that would require Medicaid recipients in Mississippi to work is garnering a lot of attention and debate. The message from this group to state officials was clear, the current proposed Medicaid work requirement would impact the state’s poorest residents, with children. … A briefing was organized by a non…

Daily Journal By: Michaela Gibson Morris An analysis of Mississippi’s proposal for Medicaid work requirements shows it would hit African-American mothers and families living in small towns and rural areas the hardest, according to a report released Tuesday. Mississippi Health Advocacy Program held press conferences across the state to release the report compiled by the…

Healthcare Dive By: Tony Abraham Florida’s large managed care population garnered intense interest from payers looking to land the contracts in the first procurement process for the state since 2013. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, which awards the contracts, said in a press release they include two new provider-based health plans. … But…

Tampa Bay Times By: News Service of Florida When it comes to health-care math, sometimes the numbers don’t add up for Florida Gov. Rick Scott. As Scott’s administration this week submits a request to the federal government to trim the amount of time people have to apply for Medicaid coverage, the state’s estimate of $98…

Inside Health Policy By: Michele Stein House lawmakers raised concerned the Medicaid data collected by CMS isn’t good enough for use in improving improper payment rates, and House oversight government operations subcommittee Chair Mark Meadows (R-NC) asked CMS Medicaid chief Tim Hill to give lawmakers a plan for how the agency will improve the data.…

Associated Press By: Marc Levy Television attack ads are flying between Scott Wagner and Paul Mango in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for governor, with a month until the election where GOP voters will pick a challenger to take on Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. Attack ads being aired by Mango and Wagner are playing on TV screens…

Vox By: Dylan Scott Paul Ryan once famously said that he had dreamed about overhauling Medicaid since he was “drinking out of a keg.” But with the news that the House speaker will retire at the end of this year, it appears Ryan will leave Congress without achieving his lifelong ambition. At least not directly.…

Daily Journal By: Michaela Gibson Morris An analysis of Mississippi’s proposal for Medicaid work requirements shows it would hit African-American mothers and families living in small towns and rural areas the hardest, according to a report released Tuesday. Mississippi Health Advocacy Program held press conferences across the state to release the report compiled by the…

McClatchy DC Bureau By: Tony Pugh An estimated 20,000 poor parents in Mississippi would lose health coverage over five years under a state proposal to require Medicaid recipients to work for their benefits, researchers at Georgetown University reported Tuesday. Childless adults aren’t eligible for coverage under Medicaid in Mississippi, where children, seniors, low-income parents and…

Herald Tribune By: Kim Doleatto Being ready for kindergarten doesn’t end at bedtime stories and knowing how to count to ten. Access to health care helps children thrive once they reach school. “More and more we’re finding a link between access to health care coverage and school readiness,” said Elisabeth Burak, Senior Fellow at Georgetown…