With the Senate Finance Committee voting tomorrow on Seema Verma’s nomination to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), it’s worth another look at Kentucky’s proposed Medicaid changes, which she helped develop — and which would require CMS approval. As we’ve...
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Medicaid Cuts Are Real Threat to Home- and Community-Based Services
February 23, 2017
Republican plans to severely cut federal Medicaid funds by converting the program to a block grant or a per capita cap represents a severe threat to funding for home- and community-based services (HCBS), despite recent claims to the contrary.
House...
TANF Block Grant Offers a Cautionary Tale for Medicaid
February 22, 2017
House Republicans plan to fast track their proposal to cut federal Medicaid funding by converting the program to a block grant or per capita cap and phasing out the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, House Republican...
ACA Medicaid Expansion Costs Falling, as Expected
January 24, 2017
State spending per person on adults who are newly eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion fell by 6.9 percent in 2016 and will keep falling in future years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates. The...
Medicaid Funding Caps Would Lead to Program Cuts, Impede Innovation
January 18, 2017
Plans by President-elect Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Health and Human Services Secretary-nominee Tom Price to radically change Medicaid’s structure by converting it to a block grant or “...
Defunding Planned Parenthood Would Leave Thousands of Women Without Care
January 3, 2017
Republicans will likely bar states from providing Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood when they vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) early this year, if they use the reconciliation bill President Obama vetoed in 2016 as a guide. That would cause thousands...
Republican Health Reform Repeal Plan Would Leave 30 Million More Uninsured
December 7, 2016
Republican congressional leaders’ plan to repeal most of the Affordable Care Act without replacing it would double the number of uninsured people.
2.5 Million People Could Save by Buying Marketplace Health Coverage
October 5, 2016
About 2.5 million people who aren’t buying health coverage on health reform’s insurance marketplaces could get help paying for their coverage if they did so, according to new research from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — including 313,000 people in California, 252,000 in...
