Utah policymakers this week enacted Senate Bill 96, repealing a voter-backed ballot initiative (Proposition 3) to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and provide health coverage to 150,000 Utahns. In its place, the state will pursue a series of...
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Posts on Health
February 13, 2019
Ahead of today’s House subcommittee hearing on bills to “reverse ACA sabotage and ensure pre-existing conditions protections,” here are our recent pieces on some of the major issues involved.
Expanding Skimpy Short-Term...
February 12, 2019
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee will consider legislation tomorrow to curb so-called “short-term” health plans, which are exempt from the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) consumer protections. Some argue, wrongly, that these plans are...
February 6, 2019
Since the Trump Administration issued new rules last year expanding short-term health plans, which are exempt from the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) protections for people with pre-existing conditions and benefit standards, nearly a dozen states have set their own limits and...
January 30, 2019
We’ve updated our state-by-state fact sheets showing how Medicaid helps millions of families and individuals across the country.
Medicaid helps low-income seniors, children, people with disabilities, and families get...
January 28, 2019
Not only have over 18,000 Arkansas Medicaid beneficiaries lost health coverage for not meeting a rigid work requirement since it took effect in June, but we also see no evidence for Governor Asa Hutchinson’s repeated claims of late that the work requirement has helped many beneficiaries...
January 25, 2019
Some Utah legislators are considering repealing the initiative that voters approved last November to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA...
January 18, 2019
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved two Medicaid waivers for Arizona that will reduce coverage, make it harder for people to access affordable care, and increase financial hardship. The first waiver lets the state take away Medicaid from people not...
January 17, 2019
Another 1,232 Arkansas Medicaid beneficiaries lost coverage on January 1 for not reporting at least 80 monthly hours of work or work-related activities for three months, bringing to 18,164 the number losing coverage since the state imposed its work requirement last June.
Even under its rigid requirement, the state didn’t have to take coverage away from this latest group. Under Arkansas’...
January 8, 2019
Some seniors and people with disabilities receiving home- and community-based services (HCBS) could lose their Medicaid eligibility and have to go into nursing homes to get needed care, because the President and Congress haven’t extended “spousal impoverishment” protections that expired on December 31. The House is expected to consider legislation today to extend the protections for three...
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