Financing
By Martha Heberlein Earlier this week, the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the Urban Institute released updated estimates of the cost and coverage implications of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid extension. These numbers are particularly helpful as states weigh whether or not to extend Medicaid to low-income adults. The big picture – if […]
By Tara Mancini Last week’s release of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s 50-State Medicaid Budget Survey for State Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013 brings encouraging news. The big picture findings from this 12th annual survey indicate that growth in both total Medicaid spending and enrollment were down in 2012. Medicaid enrollment is projected to grow at […]
We’ve heard a lot about how block-granting Medicaid will allow states more flexibility but we haven’t heard much about the potential impact such a proposal might have on low-income families. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities recently issued a report that sheds light on that issue. CBPP’s report, “How States Have Spent Federal and […]
By Martha Heberlein Our blog post from last week gave the high-level numbers of CBO’s updated score on the ACA, but we wanted to pass along a few more nuggets. If a state fails to extend Medicaid to low-income uninsured adults, it will increase the cost of covering Exchange participants. In states that elect to […]
By Tara Mancini Since 2008, we’ve heard reports about growing Medicaid enrollment and consequently, a rise in its cost (which was mainly incurred by the federal government). Of course we now know that the increases in Medicaid enrollment, and subsequently Medicaid spending, coincided with the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. And by now, Say […]
By Jocelyn Guyer In an effort to circumvent the bipartisan debt ceiling agreement reached last year, the House Budget Committee passed a measure Monday that, if enacted, would undermine the success our nation has achieved in driving the uninsured rate for children down to a record low. (It has numerous other issues as well, and […]
