Rural Health
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The Return on Investment of Medicaid Expansion: Supporting Work and Health in Rural Ohio
By Loren Anthes, MBA, Fellow, Center for Medicaid Policy, originally posted by the Center for Community Solutions When debating the Medicaid expansion in 2013, the Ohio legislature appropriately questioned whether expanding the program to non-disabled adults would be done so efficiently, supporting the health, welfare, and economy of Ohio and its citizens. The subsequent policy process reflected…
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A Tale of Two States: Children’s Uninsurance Rates in Texas and California
This week, we released our sixth annual report on children’s health coverage rates across the country. Overall, we found that the country is making incredible progress in reducing rates of uninsurance with the vast majority of states (41 states) experiencing a significant decline in uninsurance rates. The two states with the largest population of uninsured…
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Beyond the Reduction in Uncompensated Care: Medicaid Expansion Is Having a Positive Impact on Safety Net Hospitals and Clinics
More than two years after the onset of expanded Medicaid coverage, significant differences are emerging between states that opted to expand Medicaid and those that did not. This report contains the findings of telephone interviews with eleven leaders of hospital systems and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in seven states. Three of the states where we conducted interviews…
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Senate Bill Would Result in Coverage Loss for Six Million Newly Medicaid Insured Adults and Children’s Uninsured Rate will Increase Sharply, Reversing Historic and Bipartisan Gains
The United States Senate just passed a bill that would effectively repeal multiple provisions of the Affordable Care Act and result in at least 22 million Americans becoming uninsured. The Congressional Budget Office warned in its analysis of the legislation that major health insurance market disruption would be very likely, noting that: “[R]epealing the subsidies…
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$32 Million Now Available to Help Reach Eligible but Unenrolled Kids
Most uninsured children are eligible for Medicaid or CHIP but are not yet enrolled so finding them and helping them enroll is critical to successfully reducing the uninsured rate for children. As my colleague Tricia Brooks has pointed out many times, it is no secret that sustained outreach and enrollment support is the key to…
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Complaints About Strong State Medicaid Enrollment Numbers Don’t Add Up
An occasional line among opponents of states using federal Medicaid dollars to close the health coverage gap is that some states have been too successful in enrolling people in this new health coverage option – the uninsured rate in expansion states is apparently falling too quickly to suit some people. I wrote about the puzzling inconsistencies…
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Advocates Join Mayor O’Neal’s Walk to Focus on Need to Expand Medicaid and Save Rural Hospitals
Starting this week, Mayor Adam O’Neal of Belhaven began leading his second 283 mile walk from his small town in North Carolina to Washington DC. This year, several state health care advocates we know and admire including Laura Guerra-Cardus of the Children’s Defense Fund Texas, five other Texans and repeat walkers Adam Linker and Nicole…
