Emerging Issues
The Budget Resolution and Reconciliation Process Explained
In early 2021, we wrote about the basic rules for passing legislation in the House versus the Senate and how the budget reconciliation process allows certain legislation to move forward with approval from a simple majority of Senators rather than be subject to the filibuster and the usual three-fifths or 60-vote threshold. Given recent reports […]
Register for Webinar: Federal Medicaid Cuts & What’s at Stake for State Budgets and Families
The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) invites you to a special virtual session of our new Child Medicaid Policy Institute (CMPI). This webinar is free and open to the public. When: Tuesday, December 17 at 2 pm ET. What: CMPI seeks to educate child health advocates, providers, other stakeholders, and policymakers on the fundamentals […]
Webinar: How Medicaid Works & What’s at Stake in 2025
The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families held a special session of our new Child Medicaid Policy Institute on Tuesday, December 10. The Child Medicaid Policy Institute seeks to educate child health advocates, providers, stakeholders, and policymakers on the fundamentals of the Medicaid program and its importance for children, families, and other low-income individuals. […]
Congressional Republican Leaders Start to Show Their Hand: Draconian Medicaid Cuts on the Agenda for Next Year
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 […]
Trump-appointed Federal Court Judge Undercuts Important Legal Tool Used to Eliminate Health Care Fraud
Ultra-conservative politicians often use the risk of health care fraud to stoke fears about investing in public health care programs like Medicaid and Medicare. The funny thing is, their own judges appear to be working hard to make fraud more common. On September 30, 2024, a Trump-appointed Florida judge issued a radical decision to weaken […]
Webinar: Using Section 1115 Demonstrations to Support Health-Related Social Needs for Prenatal to 3 Population
Over the past few years, states have been increasingly seeking to use Medicaid section 1115 demonstrations to cover health-related social needs (HRSN) services and supports. While many states are including pregnant and postpartum individuals and their children as eligible populations to receive these benefits, not all individuals within the pregnancy and postpartum eligibility group will […]