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States Must Act to Preserve Medicaid Coverage as End of Continuous Coverage Requirement Nears

February 6, 2023 | Farah Erzouki

On April 1, 2023, states will resume reviewing all Medicaid enrollees’ eligibility — a process often called “unwinding” — and will begin ending coverage for those found ineligible.

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Expanding Health Savings Accounts Would Boost Tax Shelters, Not Access to Care

May 2, 2023 | Gideon Lukens

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As Medicaid Terminations Resume, States Should Take Action to Preserve People’s Coverage

April 3, 2023 | Farah Erzouki

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Changing Medicaid’s Funding Structure to a Per Capita Cap Would Shift Costs to States, Force Deep Cuts, and Leave Millions Uninsured

March 27, 2023 | Gideon Lukens and Allison Orris

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Policy Basics

Medicaid provides health coverage to low-income families and individuals, including children, parents, pregnant people, older adults, and people with disabilities. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) covers children in families that earn too much to receive Medicaid but can’t afford insurance through the private market.

We work to encourage states to adopt the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, identify obstacles to Medicaid enrollment, develop and advance recommendations to maximize enrollment of eligible people, and protect Medicaid and CHIP from cuts or structural changes that would hurt low-income beneficiaries.

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Expanding Health Savings Accounts Would Boost Tax Shelters, Not Access to Care

HSAs overwhelmingly benefit high-income people and exacerbate racial and ethnic...

CMS-Required Tests Are a Chance for Advocates to Improve Medicaid Unwinding Systems

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has required states to demonstrate their readiness to unwind Medicaid continuous coverage — which protected people from coverage...

Roundup: Analyzing House Republicans’ Harmful Debt-Ceiling-and-Cuts Bill

On April 25, the House passed Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt-ceiling-and-cuts bill that would use the need to raise the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip to force a set of unpopular, harmful...

McCarthy Bill Uses Debt Ceiling to Force Harmful Policies, Deep Cuts

Speaker McCarthy hides the full House Republican fiscal...

McCarthy Medicaid Proposal Puts Millions of People in Expansion States at Risk of Losing Health Coverage

Without a doubt, adding work-reporting requirements to Medicaid would cause many low-income adults to lose coverage due to bureaucratic hurdles and would leave people without the health care they...

Taking Medicaid Away for Not Meeting a Work-Reporting Requirement Would Keep People From Health Care

People’s access to health care and other basic supports should not hinge on whether they meet a work-reporting requirement or successfully navigate a complicated system to either report work hours...

Advocates’ Guide to Understanding States’ Actions as They Unwind From Medicaid Continuous Coverage: Requirements and Best Practices

With unwinding underway, it is important for advocates to know what's required, what's prohibited, and what's recommended so that they can better advocate for a streamlined unwinding process that...

As Medicaid Terminations Resume, States Should Take Action to Preserve People’s Coverage

Millions of eligible individuals and families — particularly people of color and children — are at risk of losing coverage during the “unwinding”...

Changing Medicaid’s Funding Structure to a Per Capita Cap Would Shift Costs to States, Force Deep Cuts, and Leave Millions Uninsured

This highly technical approach is designed to cut federal funding and would come at the expense of millions of people who access health care through Medicaid, jeopardizing coverage and shifting costs...

FCC Ruling Allowing Automated Text Messaging Will Help State and Local Agencies With Unwinding Medicaid Continuous Coverage

A key ruling earlier this year from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) confirmed how state- and locally administered Medicaid programs can send automated texts to enrollees. This will help...

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