Media Coverage

Kaiser Health News By: Phil Galewitz With federal spending on Medicaid experiments soaring in recent years, a congressional watchdog said state and federal governments fail to adequately evaluate if the efforts improve care and save money. A study by the Government Accountability Office released Thursday found some states don’t complete evaluation reports for up to seven years…

North Carolina Health News By: Michael Ollove Requiring able-bodied adults to work for their Medicaid is just part of the Trump administration’s drive to remake the decades-old health insurance program for the poor. The administration signaled late last year that it welcomes state-based ideas to retool Medicaid and “help individuals live up to their highest…

New York Magazine By: Ed Kilgore Even as the Trump administration greenlights state-imposed work requirements for “able-bodied adults” receiving Medicaid benefits, five states are asking for the power to take a much bigger step toward treating Medicaid like “welfare”: imposing arbitrary lifetime time limits on benefits for politically disfavored categories of recipients. … If it’s unclear Medicaid work requirements will pass…

Wall Street Journal By: Stephanie Armour Indiana on Friday became the second state to gain approval for imposing work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries, a sign that the Trump administration is maintaining a rapid pace for granting changes that will put a conservative imprint on the program. … It is uncertain how the Trump administration will…

Think Progress By: Amanda Michelle Gomez Thomas Penister was uninsured for years after serving time in prison. In 2015, he applied for Medicaid coverage to see a primary care doctor as his mental health problems became debilitating. He was relieved to finally discover what was wrong: his doctor diagnosed him with post-traumatic stress disorder, attention-deficit…

Kaiser Health News By: Phil Galewitz Indiana on Friday became the second state to win federal approval to add a work requirement for adult Medicaid recipients who gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act, but a less debated “lockout” provision in its new plan could lead to tens of thousands of enrollees losing coverage. The federal…

Roll Call By: Jason Dick A growing number of mostly Republican-led states are rushing to follow Kentucky’s lead in requiring thousands of people on Medicaid to work or lose health coverage. The governors of South Dakota, Alabama, Louisiana and South Carolina have said in recent weeks that they plan to pursue work requirements for their…

Washington Post By: Phil Galewitz As the Trump administration moves to give states more flexibility in running Medicaid, advocates for the poor are keeping a close eye on Indiana to see whether such conservative ideas improve or harm care. Indiana in 2015 implemented some of the most radical changes seen to the state-federal program that…

Washington Post By: Phil Galewitz As the Trump administration moves to give states more flexibility in running Medicaid, advocates for the poor are keeping a close eye on Indiana to see whether such conservative ideas improve or harm care. Indiana in 2015 implemented some of the most radical changes seen to the state-federal program that…

Roll Call A growing number of mostly Republican-led states are rushing to follow Kentucky’s lead in requiring thousands of people on Medicaid to work or lose health coverage. … Many of the non-expansion states considering work requirements already have some of the most stringent Medicaid eligibility requirements in the country. In Alabama, adults without children…

Washington Post By: Robert Samuels The government shutdown was over, and Varina Mead finally felt a little at ease. The single mother, 38, smiled as she watched her two children put down their backpacks, curl up under on the red couch and watch “Surf’s Up” while she prepared dinner in the kitchen. No longer was…

PBS News Hour By: JoNel Aleccia Unable to walk or talk, barely able to see or hear, 5-year-old Maddie Holt waits in her wheelchair for a ride to the hospital. The 27-pound girl is dressed in polka-dot pants and a flowered shirt for the trip, plus a red headband with a sparkly bow, two wispy…

FierceHealthcare By: Paige Minemyer Though Congress renewed CHIP for six years in a stopgap spending measure, the insurance program that covers more than 9 million kids could still face financial issues down the line.The spending bill, President Donald Trump signed into law earlier this month, would extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program for six years, but experts…

The Hill By: John Bouman President Donald J. Trump will deliver his first State of the Union Address tomorrow, a touchstone from which to evaluate his first year in office. There is certainly a lot to talk about — what with all the scandals, palace intrigue, and alarming and often confounding Twitter tirades. But what…

Washington Examiner By: Robert King States are facing new problems with the Children’s Health Insurance Program, even as Congress passed a six-year reauthorization for the Children’s Health Insurance Program this week, ending a months-long standoff. … The change to the lower matching rate is to reduce a funding bump that the program received from the…

City Lab By: Dwyer Gunn Earlier this month, the Trump administration informed states that the federal government would now be open to state-level initiatives to impose work requirements or other conditions on Medicaid recipients. A number of red states had proposed such changes in years past but were rebuffed by the Obama administration. … These…

NPR By: Jonel Aleccia Unable to walk or talk, barely able to see or hear, 5-year-old Maddie Holt of Everett, Wash., waits in her wheelchair for a ride to the hospital. The 27-pound girl is dressed in polka-dot pants and a flowered shirt for the trip, plus a red headband with a sparkly bow, two…

VoxCare By: Sarah Kliff Last spring, Oregon legislators were weighing the idea of ending their Medicaid expansionto close a growing hole in the state budget. This would have made Oregon the first state in the country to back out of the Affordable Care Act program expanding coverage to millions of low-income Americans. … Meanwhile, Mississippi is…

Governing By: Mattie Quinn It took 18 months — and a change in White House administration — for the federal government to give Kentucky the green light to make work a requirement for some low-income people to get health insurance. Now, the state might have to wait even longer. Now, the state might have to…

BYU Radio Guest: Tricia Brooks, Senior Fellow, Center for Children and Families, and Associate Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University. The deal lawmakers struck to reopen the government on Monday only lasts until February 8, but that measure did include a longer-term fix to a program called “CHIP” – the Children’s Health…