Financing
I have been warning for months that Medicaid would be on the chopping block if there is a second term of the Trump Administration and if Congressional Republicans win House and Senate majorities in 2025. That is because the Project 2025 blueprint, the fiscal year 2025 Republican Study Committee budget plan, and the fiscal year […]
Last week, many in the Medicaid and CHIP community were focused on CMS’s announcement of guidance to states on Medicaid EPSDT requirements (and for good reason). However, we also wanted to make sure folks saw the new notice of funding opportunity for planning grants to state Medicaid and CHIP agencies to develop operational capabilities to […]
I have been writing about the many conservative and Congressional Republican plans and proposals to make draconian cuts to Medicaid. The centerpiece of several prominent plans — Project 2025, the Republican Study Committee fiscal year 2025 (RSC) budget and the fiscal year 2025 House GOP budget resolution — is to cap and deeply cut federal […]
As a nonprofit health attorney over a decade ago I worked in North Carolina on pushing hospital systems to eliminate the practice of suing lower income patients for medical debt and associated abuses like pursuing liens against the houses of poor families. A Pulitzer-prize nominated newspaper series detailed the situation at the time in North […]
By Joan Alker and Michael Perry We’ve worked on Medicaid policy and/or public opinion research for three decades now and have observed its growing importance as the backbone of our health care system – now covering approximately 80 million people — as well as its centrality to voters. Medicare and Social Security are often described […]
The Project 2025 blueprint, the fiscal year 2025 Republican Study Committee budget plan, and the fiscal year 2025 House budget resolution all propose draconian Medicaid cuts, with a centerpiece of capping and cutting federal Medicaid funding through block grants and/or per capita caps. Together, they signal that radically restructuring Medicaid would likely be a high […]
