Report
Health Care
The major federal health programs – Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act – will be atop the federal agenda for the foreseeable future. As policymakers consider how to restrain health care spending growth and modify the major health programs, Policy Futures promotes policies that expand and sustain, rather than restrict, access to affordable health coverage.
Stay up to date
Supportive Housing Helps Vulnerable People Live and Thrive in the Community
Supportive housing, a highly effective strategy that combines affordable housing with intensive coordinated services, can help the most vulnerable people in America maintain a stable...
New Parity Rules for Mental and Physical Health Coverage Need Strong Enforcement
A new federal regulation could significantly improve access to needed mental health and substance use disorder services for millions of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)...
Expert Group Proposes Long-Term Care Financing Reforms
Expanding access to high-quality long-term care requires a multi-pronged solution, including a new public long-term care insurance program, improved Medicaid coverage of home and community-based...
CBO: Individual Mandate Repeal Would Undo Historic Health Coverage Gains
As part of budget reconciliation legislation that may move in coming weeks, House Republican leaders are likely to include a repeal of health reform’s requirement, known as the individual mandate,...
Medicare Isn’t Going “Bankrupt”
Some politicians continue to claim erroneously that Medicare is running out of money. House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan asserts that Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund “will go...
Medicaid at 50: Cuts Poverty, Boosts Financial Health
Medicaid provides significant financial support to low-income beneficiaries in addition to improving their health, new research shows. Medicaid lifted 2.6 million people out of poverty in 2010,...
Van de Water: Medicare Trustees See Little Change in Outlook
The outlook for Medicare’s finances has changed little since last year, and the program continues to face financing challenges in the long run, today’s report from its trustees shows....
Awaiting the 2015 Social Security and Medicare Trustees' Reports
Though we don't know what the reports will say, we expect they'll reinforce what we've explained before: that Social Security and Medicare face real but manageable financial challenges, and are not...
Medicaid at 50: Covering Children Has Long-Term Educational Benefits
Children eligible for Medicaid for more of their childhood are less likely to drop out of high school and likelier to earn a college bachelor’s degree, a National Bureau of Economic Research study...
Medicaid’s Long-Term Earnings and Health Benefits
Children eligible for Medicaid later earn more as adults and have fewer emergency-room visits and hospitalizations, two recent studies highlighted in this month’s National Bureau of Economic...
Pagination
- Previous page
- Page 2
- Next page