In a move that will likely have deeply harmful effects, Wisconsin next week will become the first state to implement a policy to take Medicaid away from people in poverty who don’t pay premiums — and the latest to impose harmful barriers on health coverage for...
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Providers, Patients, Advocates Oppose Tennessee’s Medicaid Block Grant
January 15, 2020
Tennessee’s proposal to radically change TennCare, the state’s Medicaid program, including by converting its federal financing to an unprecedented block grant, would...
For Mother’s Day, States Should Ensure Access to Comprehensive Health Coverage
May 7, 2019
Rather than send flowers, state policymakers should offer women a Mother’s Day gift with longer-lasting benefits: expanding Medicaid coverage and rejecting policies that take coverage away from people who don’t meet work requirements. They should also reject attempts to weaken...
Montana Set to Continue Medicaid Expansion, But With Changes That Will Likely End Coverage for Many
April 25, 2019
Montana’s state legislature has adopted legislation that would extend the state’s Medicaid expansion until 2025 but also impose new work-related restrictions and higher premiums on expansion enrollees — policies that will likely take Medicaid coverage away from thousands of Montanans, including some who are working or should qualify for exemptions. Montana enacted the Medicaid expansion under...
Montana Bill Would Cut Medicaid Expansion Enrollment in Half, Cost Nearly the Same as Full Extension
March 25, 2019
A restrictive Montana proposal would take coverage away from about 50,000 people, a new fiscal analysis from the state Office of Budget and Program Planning finds, or about half of those enrolled through the...
Medicaid Restrictions Impede Innovation to Improve Care, Reduce Costs
March 14, 2019
President Trump’s 2020 budget doubles down on the Administration’s unprecedented policy of letting states take away Medicaid coverage from people not meeting work requirements by proposing work requirements nationwide. We’ve previously...
Trump Budget Would Take Medicaid Away From People, Nationwide, Who Don’t Meet Work Requirements
March 12, 2019
President Trump’s new budget would take Medicaid coverage away from adults nationwide if they don’t meet a work requirement, which the Kaiser Family Foundation’s prior...
Contrary to Rhetoric, Trump Budget Cuts Access to Care for HIV, Substance Use Disorders
March 11, 2019
Just weeks after promising in the State of the Union to expand funding to substantially reduce new HIV infections over the next ten years and combat the opioid epidemic, President Trump unveiled a budget today that deeply cuts Medicaid, the core program providing access to health care for people with these conditions. Even with its limited new funds for programs that address HIV and substance...
Revisions Can’t Fix Montana Medicaid Proposal — Still Takes Coverage From Thousands
March 7, 2019
The sponsor of legislation in Montana to take Medicaid coverage away from people who don’t meet a work requirement, charge low-income adults high premiums, and make eligibility contingent on completing extra paperwork related to job readiness and health status — all of which would have caused up to 36,000 people to lose coverage — has...
