CMS’ new guidance doesn’t provide a convincing rationale for the policy reversal, which could threaten Medicaid coverage for many adults and actually make it harder for some adults to succeed in the labor market due to their loss of health coverage.
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Yes, Medicaid Improves Access to Health Coverage and Care
December 15, 2017
Senator Bill Cassidy’s claim that “patients covered through Medicaid often have worse outcomes than those who are covered through other forms of insurance” is just the latest example of congressional Republicans selectively using data to portray...
CMS Will Let States Cut Medicaid for People Who Can’t Work
November 14, 2017
For the first time, states will be able to require work or work-related activities as a condition of Medicaid eligibility, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma recently announced. Verma’s announcement followed a CMS...
Medicaid Expansion Is Critical for States Fighting Opioid Epidemic
October 4, 2017
As the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee meets tomorrow on the federal response to the opioid epidemic, it should consider the recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report showing that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion is providing essential mental health and substance use disorder treatment....
Senate GOP Bill Would End Medicaid Expansion Coverage for Many Low-Wage Workers
July 6, 2017
The Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would effectively end the ACA’s Medicaid expansion starting in 2021, leaving millions of low-wage workers who gained coverage through the expansion uninsured and without access to needed care, as we detail in several new state fact sheets....
Senate Health Bill Deepens Medicaid Cuts for High-Cost States
June 23, 2017
The Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would (like the House bill) fundamentally restructure Medicaid by converting its federal funding to a “per capita cap” that would grow more slowly than actual Medicaid per-beneficiary costs, and states would likely have to make even deeper cuts to Medicaid...
To Protect Children, Senate Republicans Must Drop Medicaid Per Capita Cap
June 23, 2017
The Senate Republican health bill, like the House-passed bill, would convert Medicaid to a per capita cap, but it would cut Medicaid even more deeply and pose an even greater threat to coverage for all Medicaid beneficiaries — including children. Senate Republicans claim that by excluding certain children with disabilities from the per capita cap, they’re “guaranteeing” continued...
House GOP Health Bill’s Per Capita Cap Threatens Everyone’s Medicaid Coverage
June 5, 2017
By converting Medicaid to a per capita cap or block grant, the House-passed Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act threatens coverage for all Medicaid beneficiaries. Here’s why:
Under the House bill, the federal government starting in 2020 would no longer pay a fixed percentage of states’ overall Medicaid costs, as it does now. Instead, it would pay only a fixed amount...
Medicaid Works, in 5 Charts
May 12, 2017
The House-passed bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would severely damage Medicaid and make quality care less accessible to low-income Americans — the very feature of Medicaid that a new Commonwealth Fund analysis highlights.
That’s because the...
