Preserving Coverage
Impact on Children and Families Top Five Ways ACA Repeal and Medicaid Financing Changes Would Harm our Youngest Children (2/27/17) Radically Restructuring Medicaid Would be Bad for Kids (2/24/17) Nation’s Success in Covering Children is in Peril (2/24/17) Complicated Cassidy-Collins Plan to Replace ACA Falls Short (1/25/17) What Does President Trump’s Executive Order Mean for the Affordable Care Act? (1/23/17) […]
In this new Kaiser Family Foundation report on the consequences for Medicaid expansion if the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is repealed, two numbers particularly stand out: 11 million adults have gained Medicaid coverage in 31 states and DC because of the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Through mid 2015, Medicaid expansion states have […]
Originally posted by NCLR Latino children with health coverage reached a record high 92.5 percent in 2015, the second year after key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) took effect, according to our new joint report with the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. These gains are part of overall coverage gains for […]
By Olivia Golden, Executive Director, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) Proposals by the Congress and President-elect to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—including the Medicaid expansion—to turn Medicaid into a block grant, and to cut resources, all can sound very abstract to social workers and policymakers coping with the day-to-day tragedies and crises of […]
This week, Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act, now headed to the President’s desk. The bill takes a number of steps to improve research and care quality in the healthcare system. Lesser known, the final agreement included mental health reforms that have been in the works for several years. These include helpful changes to […]
Less than two months ago we released our annual report looking at the nation’s progress in covering uninsured children. As regular readers of Say Ahhh! know this year we found widespread and unprecedented progress in reducing the number of uninsured children with the nation reaching a historic milestone of 95% of children covered in 2015 […]
