Financing
By Wesley Prater A couple of months ago, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin introduced his biennium budget for 2011-13 which consisted of cuts of nearly $500 million to Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus, the state’s Medicaid program. Additionally, the Governor’s Budget Repair Bill (yes, that same bill that would undermine collective bargaining rights) would give Wisconsin’s Department […]
In these days of tight budgets, states are looking for every single penny they can save. Our friends in Utah are saving more than a few – 52¢ to be exact – every time they send an electronic notice to someone enrolled in Medicaid. This is one of those win-win strategies where saving money also […]
By Donna Sutton Fay, Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security Education Fund Vermont has been successful in incrementally expanding its public health insurance programs for the past twenty-five years. Subsidized coverage is available to children and uninsured adults with incomes up to 300% of the FPL. We have one of the lowest rates of uninsured […]
Proponents of block granting Medicaid have been pointing to Rhode Island’s Section 1115 research and demonstration waiver that includes a global cap on federal spending as evidence of the success of this approach. But as an article that appears in yesterday’s New York Times underscores, this analogy is just another example of the “fact free” […]
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health took the first step toward unraveling the remarkable success our nation has achieved in connecting kids with coverage and driving uninsurance rates for children down to a historic low. Today the Subcommittee approved “The State Flexibility Act” (H.R. 1683), a bill introduced by Representative Gingrey (R-GA) that […]
There are a lot of bad ideas floating around Congress that could harm children and families who rely upon Medicaid or CHIP to meet their health care needs. Here are the highlights of what happened on the hill this week on various proposals that would undermine the stability of Medicaid and CHIP coverage. Senate Finance […]
