Media Coverage
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ACA Helps Bring Children Uninsured Rates to Record Low
Public News Service Colorado By Eric Galatas October 28th, 2015 DENVER – More children in Colorado and the nation have health coverage. According to a new report by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, the rate of uninsured children dropped to a historic low of 6 percent in 2014, the year the Affordable…
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The North Carolina Experiment: How one state is trying to reshape Medicaid
Kaiser Health News By Michael Tomsic October 20, 2015 North Carolina is in the process of overhauling its Medicaid program. The governor and state lawmakers are using a mixture of health care models to put the major players – doctors, hospitals and insurers – all on the hook to keep rising costs in check. ……
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New CMS report fails to please critics of Medicaid waiver process
Modern Healthcare By Virgil Dickson October 19, 2015 A new report to Congress on the transparency of Medicaid demonstration waivers is doing little to quell concerns that the CMS needs to beef up its oversight of the policy experiments. … “Critical Medicaid questions continue to be raised through the waiver process so this issue remains…
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The Session’s Medicaid Omission
The Robesonian The Session’s Medicaid Omission October 16th, 2015 One of the biggest stories of the 2015 General Assembly is what lawmakers didn’t do and the people they didn’t help. They again declined to follow the lead of 30 other states and the District of Columbia and expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act…
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Editorial: Renate Pore: How W.Va. children benefit from Medicaid
West Virginia Hospital Association The Charleston Gazette-Mail August 6, 2015 CHARLESTON – Medicaid turns 50 this year, and it’s time to celebrate the remarkable success of this program, especially for children. A new report from the Georgetown Center on Children and Families documents the long-term benefits of Medicaid for children. Read more here.
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Bush Health Plan Shaped by Mixed Experience in Florida
Politico By Christine Sexton October 14, 2015 TALLAHASSEE — Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush, who has repeatedly called on skeptical conservative voters to consider his record in Florida, reached back to his roots as the state’s chief executive on Tuesday when he announced his own plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Bush relied on…
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Jeb Bush’s Healthcare Pitch Puts Florida Record to the Test
Politico By Nancy Cook and Christine Sexton October 12, 2015 Jeb Bush will reach back to his own legacy as Florida governor on Tuesday to unveil his vision for replacing Obamacare, showcasing what he calls state-tested ideas for bringing down health care costs and revamping health coverage for the poor. But Democrats are ready to…
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Should Medicaid Recipients Have to Work?
Stateline By Michael Ollove October 8, 2015 If Arizona gets its way, its able-bodied, low-income adults will face the toughest requirements in the country to receive health care coverage through Medicaid. Most of the those Medicaid recipients and new applicants would have to have a job, be looking for one or be in job training…
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Arizona Medicaid Waiver Proposal Wages War on the Poor
Stateline By Rick Cohen September 30, 2015 Arizona governor Jan Brewer was one of the very few Republican governors in southern or western states to go along with the Affordable Care Act option of expanding income eligibility for Medicaid. Presumably, she realized that spurning the new moneys offered by the federal government and leaving…
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Breaking Down The NC Medicaid Overhaul: A Mix of Health Care Models
WFAE By Michael Tomsic September 25, 2015 Medicaid is always one of the biggest expenditures for states, and North Carolina is overhauling its program to try to make its budget more predictable. The overhaul is essentially a mixture of health care models that are gaining national prominence. The result will change who’s in charge of…
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Lack of Data on Obamacare Child Policies Troubles Advocates
CQ Roll Call By Melissa Attias As Congress fought over the contours of the health care law six years ago, Sen. Robert Menendez won support for a plan to provide subsidized insurance for people under the age of 21 without the need to enroll an adult on the same policy. The idea was to provide a…
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NC Legislature Approves Medicaid Privatization
The News & Observer September 22, 2015 By Lynn Bonner RALEIGH — The state began moving toward managed care for Medicaid recipients Tuesday despite a persistent group of dissenters who argue that the plan rejects a system run by doctors that for years has helped hold down costs. The Senate passed House Bill 372, which overhauls…
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Tampa TV Report On Low Income Medical Funding Fails To Mention Republican Refusal To Expand Medicaid
Media Matters for America July 17, 2015 By Daniel Angster Tampa Bay Fox television station WTVT left out the fact that Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican-led legislature refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in its story about an ailing young boy whose family might have to struggle to…
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Group Rates Florida’s HMOs Average, But State Lauds Quality of Care
Miami Herald September 23, 2015 By Daniel Chang Most of the private companies managing Florida’s Medicaid health insurance program for low-income people ranked at the national average on patient satisfaction, preventive care and medical treatment in 2014, according to a recently released comparative rating of plans. But the ratings excluded six of the 13 private insurers in…
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Michigan Medicaid Expansion At Stake With New Waiver Request
Modern Healthcare September 1, 2015 By Virgil Dickson Michigan has submitted a take-it-or-leave-it request to alter the terms of its Medicaid expansion, and coverage for about 600,000 residents is at stake. Under the proposed waiver, residents above the federal poverty level who have been enrolled in Medicaid for 48 months would have to buy a…
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Immigration Relief Increasing Health Coverage; CA Kids Eligible Now
New America Media August 18, 2015 By Anna Challet A study has found that hundreds of thousands of children who are eligible for health care are not currently enrolled. Some of these children are kids who have undocumented parents, but who are themselves citizens or lawfully residing in the United States. Some of them are…
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States Shift Healthcare Dollars; Activists Cry Foul
The Hill August 15, 2015 By Sarah Ferris States are shifting dollars they once spent on children’s health into roadways and tax cuts, raising fears for advocates that important healthcare programs could lose their funding. Kansas, Indiana and California are among the states looking to relocate money away from their Children’s Health Insurance Programs (CHIP)…
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Children’s Advocates Criticize Brownback CHIP Transfer
Hays Post August 13, 2015 By Jim McLean Governor Sam Brownback’s decision to divert federal funding away from a health insurance program is drawing sharp criticism from children’s advocates. The divert in funding from CHIP has affected eligibility of Kansas children. Currently there are 54,000 children enrolled in Kansas’ Children Health Insurance Program. … The…
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Who’s to Blame for Florida’s Rising Medicaid Costs?
Tallahassee Democrat August 4, 2015 By Kelli Kennedy and Gary Fineout The Medicaid program in Florida is finishing its first year under a new managed care structure that Governor Scott fought vigorously for during re-election, believing it would save the state money. But now in the face of needing additional funding for the program, Scott…
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Medicaid at 50: The Value of Covering Ohio Kids
Morrow County Sentinel August 1, 2015 By Mary Kuhlman Columbus Ohio – A new report has emphasized the long term success of the Medicaid program in Ohio. About one million children, around 46%, receive prescriptions, doctor visits and other medical care through Medicaid. Additionally, studies have found that children who receive Medicaid care are more…