News and Observer Deaths of African-American babies declined most quickly in states that expanded Medicaid coverage, researchers have found. North Carolina isn’t one of those states. … Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, said the conclusions about insurance improving infant health make sense. As it stands in […]
Modern Healthcare Medicaid block grant guidance unveiled on Thursday would allow states to exclude some prescription drugs from their formularies, though the CMS in 2018 denied Massachusetts’ request to employ a similar strategy. … Edwin Park, a research professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, said he views the potential optional expansion […]
Courier Journal After years of progress in getting kids covered, the nation now has more than 1 million uninsured young children, a significant increase of 114,000 from 2016 to 2018, according to an analysis by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Kentucky is among the 11 states where both the number and rate […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sen. Bob Casey plans to propose the most sweeping expansions of children’s health care, education and school meal programs in recent memory, launching a messaging campaign in Harrisburg on Friday that he will take across Pennsylvania in 2020. Among the central tenets of the plan, which was provided to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is […]
Huffington Post By; Jonathan Cohn The Trump administration is back with a new initiative that could make it harder for some low-income Americans to get health care. … But if some state officials try, as several conservative ones seem inclined to do, and if the courts allow it, as perhaps some conservative judges will decide […]
NPR By: Selena Simmons-Duffin The Trump administration wants to dramatically alter the way the federal government gives money to states for Medicaid. … Critics responded quickly to Thursday’s announcement. Eagan Kemp, health care policy advocate with the liberal advocacy group Public Citizen, called the program “a Medicaid block grant by another name.” Edwin Park of […]
