Modern Healthcare January 18, 2019 By: Harris Meyer Arizona on Friday became the eighth state to receive CMS approval for a waiver to establish a Medicaid work requirement. … Arizona has not projected how many people will be disenrolled due to the work requirement, and has not estimated how much the program will cost to […]
Los Angeles Times January 23, 2019 By: Noam Levey The percentage of American adults without health insurance surged upward in 2018, reaching levels not recorded since before President Trump took office, according to a new national survey that revealed widespread coverage losses over the last two years. … Yet an increasing body of evidence indicates […]
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 […]
