Update, March 6: we’ve updated this post with revised data from the Urban Institute.
The Trump Administration’s approval today of Arkansas’ harsh work requirement inMedicaid will likely set back the state’s considerable progress under the Affordable Care...
Senate leaders are reportedly considering adding $200 billion to the Senate health bill to supplement private coverage for people who gained Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion and would lose it under their bill. But that would fall far short of the actual cost of providing affordable private coverage to those people, new Urban Institute...
While $200 billion seems like a lot of money, it’s only 17 percent of the bill’s $1.2 trillion in cuts.
While the Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) appears dead for now, efforts to undo the ACA’s Medicaid expansion — which has enabled 11 million low-income people to get health coverage — will likely continue. So let’s put to rest the thoroughly debunked claim that the Medicaid expansion has enlarged state waiting lists for home- and community-based services (HCBS), which give...
Updated July 20th
Trump Administration officials are reportedly trying to win Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval’s support for the Senate Republican health bill by offering him a waiver of Medicaid rules that would give Nevada funds to supplement the coverage that would be available to low-income people in the...
The Senate Republican health bill directs the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary to implement procedures to encourage states to adopt or extend home- and community-based services (HCBS) Medicaid waiver programs, which allow seniors and people with disabilities, including children with complex health care needs, to stay in their homes. But like the House-passed health bill, the Senate...
Alaska would experience significant harm from Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as we’ve explained. But the risk to its Medicaid expansion, which has provided health coverage for more than 30,000 Alaskans and especially benefited Alaska...
Senate Republicans reportedly may try to add funds to address the opioid epidemic to their emerging bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As we...
Maine’s new proposal for a Medicaid waiver seeks radical and unprecedented changes to Medicaid, totally disregarding what Medicaid law allows and targeting the state’s lowest-income adults in ways that would likely leave many without access to needed health care.
The federal government can waive...
Wisconsin plans to seek federal permission to make unprecedented changes to its Medicaid program that would likely cause large numbers of adults without dependent children to lose coverage or fail to enroll. Under the Social Security Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may only approve a state request for a...
