Media Coverage
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Election Results Endanger Innovative Arkansas Medicaid Plan
The New York Times November 06, 2014 By Margot Sanger-Katz, In Arkansas, a bipartisan policy compromise has led to one of the country’s most successful health insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act. But this week’s election results put the future of the state’s Medicaidexpansion in jeopardy. Arkansas negotiated with the Obama administration to expand its Medicaid…
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Alabama gets high marks on children’s health insurance
Montgomery Advertiser November 06, 2014 By Brian Lyman, A Georgetown University study released Wednesday found Alabama led the South in providing health insurance to children, and ranked the state among the best in the nation on that issue. The report from the university’s Center for Children and Families said 4.3 percent of Alabama’s children lack…
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Reporte: Casi 900,000 niños de Texas, sin seguro de salud
Public News Service November 06, 2014 By John Michaelso and Alfonso López-Collada, AUSTIN, Texas – Una investigación publicada recientemente detectó que casi 900 mil niños y niñas de Texas carecen de seguro médico. El reporte señala que el Programa de Seguro de Salud Infantil es clave para lograr la cobertura de los niños, y destaca…
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Report: Uninsured Rate Among Children In Florida, Georgia Remains High
WFSU December 03, 2014 By Lynn Hatter, More than 200,000 children are now insured in Florida, yet the state has the highest rate of uninsured children in the South and the fifth highest in the nation, according the Georgetown Health Policy Institute. One way proposed to bring these numbers down is to adjust how much families…
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Arkansas’ Medicaid Experiment, Key To Obamacare Expansion, On Ropes
Kaiser Health News February 10, 2014 By Phil Galewitz ALEXANDER, Ark. – Ellen Louise Fant was no fan of the Affordable Care Act. “I don’t like to have anything shoved down my throat,” said Fant, 60, referring to the law’s requirement that most Americans carry health insurance. Then last fall, the former teacher’s aide got…
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Obamacare Foes to Newly Insured: Put Down the Donut
NBC News February 06, 2014 By JoNel Aleccia, The White House may be bragging about the 3 million people who’ve got a new shot at health care, including the 2.4 million who’ll get Obamacare on the taxpayer’s dime, but critics have a few choice words for the newly insured: Put. Down. The. Donut. Commentators like Sandy Pukel,…
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Model Arkansas way of expanding Medicaid at risk
The Washington Post February 06, 2014 By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press, LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ plan for expanding Medicaid by buying private insurance policies for the poor instead of adding them to the rolls was heralded as a model for convincing more Republican-leaning states to adopt a key part of President Barack Obama’s health care…
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U.S. gives Pennsylvania until 2015 to move poorest children into Medicaid under Obamacare
The Morning Call January 22, 2014 By Steve Esack and Tim Darragh, Corbett, an opponent of the nation’s health care law, wants families to have the choice to choose CHIP. HARRISBURG — In what the Corbett administration touted as a partial victory, federal authorities said Pennsylvania can keep its poorest children in a state-run health insurance program…
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Legal Loopholes Leave Some Kids Without Dental Insurance
National Public Radio January 09, 2014 By Julie Rovner, If you think buying health insurance under the Affordable Care Act has been complicated, just wait. Buying dental coverage on the health exchanges, it turns out, is even more confusing. Dental coverage for children is one of the benefits that must be offered under the law. But, it…
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Reform Update: CMS creates workarounds to ensure Medicaid coverage
Modern Healthcare January 07, 2014 By Virgil Dickson, Faced with the reality that HealthCare.gov still has limited ability to transmit completed Medicaid applications to state agencies, the CMS has come up with two new workarounds to ensure people get covered. As many as 100,000 Americans who were told they were eligible for new Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage have…
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Georgia Misses Out On Bonus Money For Enrolling Kids In PeachCare, Medicaid
Georgia Health News January 7, 2014 By Andy Miller, ATLANTA — After two years of receiving a bonus, Georgia is not included in the latest round of federal performance awards for enrolling eligible children in government health insurance programs. A state qualifies for a federal bonus by implementing procedures to simplify enrollment and renewal to…
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Don’t Call Pennsylvania’s Proposed Medicaid Plan an ‘Expansion’
RH Reality Check January 04, 2014 By Tara Murtha, Under the Affordable Care Act, states are encouraged to expand access to Medicaid coverage, with the federal government picking up the tab through 2016 and then paying no less than 90 percent on a permanent basis. Most of the 26 states that rejected the expansion are “more…
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Medicaid growth creates gap of 5M without coverage
Associated Press December 30, 2013 By Marc Levy, HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — About 5 million people will be without health care next year that they would have gotten simply if they lived somewhere else in America. They make up a coverage gap in President Barack Obama’s signature health care law created by the domino effects…
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Iowa Opens The Doors To Medicaid Coverage, On Its Own Terms
Iowa Public Radio December 26, 2013 By Clay Masters, At the Central Iowa Shelter and Services in Des Moines, Iowa, health insurance navigator Andrea Pearce stood in a crowded dining hall on a recent day, shouting instructions on how residents can sign up for Medicaid. “If you do not have insurance and you want to…
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Pennsylvania isn’t serious about expanding Medicaid. How do we know?
Los Angeles Times December 14, 2013 By Michael Hiltzik Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has lately been getting credit in the political press for being one of those Republican governors coming around on the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Advocates for the underprivileged can’t understand why. They’re right to wonder. Corbett’s “Healthy Pennsylvania” plan, which was released for public comment…
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Report Shows Health Coverage Progress for Mississippi Kids
Soundbite Services JACKSON, Miss. – There’s some good news for Mississippi and the nation in terms of getting health coverage for more children. About 8700 more kids have health insurance in Mississippi today than in 2010, according to a new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Nationally, it says more kids are insured…
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Children’s Health Insurance Program still unclear for kids
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette December 11, 2013 By Kate Giammaris, HARRISBURG — The administration of Gov. Tom Corbett is asking the federal government to grant about 50,000 low-income families a choice between keeping their child’s health insurance under the Children’s Health Insurance Program or giving them the option of Medicaid coverage. Under the federal Affordable Care Act,…
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Report: More California Children Have Health Insurance
East County Magazine December 11, 2013 More California children are getting the health care coverage they need. According to a report from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, more than 100,000 California kids gained health insurance between 2010 and 2012, which puts the state’s uninsured rate among children at about 8 percent. Despite high poverty…
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Long-Term Care Transition Bumpy
Health News Florida December 11, 2013 By Mary Shedden, Florida’s unprecedented transition to managed care for its most fragile Medicaid patients is working, but questions remain about its benefit down the road, according to a report from Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute released today. About 40 different individuals involved in the early phases of shifting…
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Georgetown report raises more questions about Florida Medicaid reform
Orlando Sentinel December 11, 2013 By Aaron Deslatte, TALLAHASSEE — A new Georgetown University report is questioning whether Florida’s handover of millions of Medicaid patients to managed-care companies will be able to achieve the twin goals of cutting costs and improving health. In short, the first steps of the changeover had some “glitches” and left some patients in MetroOrlando confused…