Acting right on the heels of the historic decision affirming the Affordable Care Act in King v. Burwell, Florida Governor Rick Scott withdrew his lawsuit against the Obama Administration on the state’s Low Income Pool. That was a wise decision in my view, as the suit had no merit (in my purely non-legal opinion). But […]
CCF Executive Director Joan Alker’s testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing entitled “Examining the Administration’s Approval of Medicaid Demonstration Projects.” A video of her testimony is also available here.
Today the Florida House voted down the Senate’s Florida Health Insurance Affordability Exchange plan that would have accepted federal Medicaid funds. The House’s rejection of the Senate plan follows a strong bipartisan vote in that chamber in favor earlier this week of 33-3. Both chambers have large Republican majorities. An estimated 669,000 Floridians will remain […]
By Jon Peacock, Wisconsin Coalition on Children and Families Sooner or later, Wisconsin is going to expand its Medicaid coverage, known as “BadgerCare,” to include all adults up to 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL). The strong public support for expanding coverage and the substantial financial benefits of accepting increased federal funding will eventually […]
It’s hard to miss the ongoing debate about Florida’s Medicaid expansion and the related subject of how the federal government plans to respond to the state’s request for continued funding of its Low Income Pool. But it would be easy to miss that the federal government just opened that amendment up for public comment. As […]
In the latest development in Florida’s Medicaid saga, yesterday CMS gave a preliminary response to Florida’s Low Income Pool request. Adhering to the principles outlined in an April 14 letter, CMS indicated that it plans to cut LIP substantially by 55% for the state’s next fiscal year and 75% in the following year – the […]
