Medicaid and CHIP | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

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Continuous Eligibility Keeps People Insured and Reduces Costs

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) cut the nation’s uninsured rate nearly in half from 16 percent to 9 percent, but 29 million people remain uninsured, including about 18 million who are...

Medicaid Expansion Cuts Hospitals’ Uncompensated Care Costs

Recent research from Louisiana underscores how Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could dramatically reduce uncompensated care costs — the cost of providing health care that...

Setting the Record Straight About Medicaid Expansion’s Impact on Missouri’s Budget

Some Missouri lawmakers, citing unfounded concerns about cost, are trying to derail the July 1 implementation of a constitutional amendment passed by voters last summer that will expand Medicaid...

Medicaid Expansion Boosts Coverage and Services for People With Disabilities, Despite Critics’ Claims

Policymakers in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid are giving it new consideration, in part because of the American Rescue Plan’s large new financial incentive to do so. Expansion...

Biden Administration Should Withdraw All Approvals of Medicaid Work Requirements

The Trump Administration approved policies in 13 state demonstration projects (or “waivers”) that take Medicaid coverage away from people who don’t comply with stringent work...

Coverage for COVID-19 Testing, Vaccinations, and Treatment

Various laws, regulations, and guidance that federal policymakers put in place since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic expand access to testing, vaccination, and treatment for the...

Policy Brief: Medicaid Key to Building Comprehensive Substance Use Care System for Low-Income People

Medicaid can cover a rich array of clinical SUD treatment services, recovery supports, and other mental and physical health...

Unwinding the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Provision: What States Can Do Now to Keep Eligible People Covered

By carefully planning how to resume normal operations at the end of the PHE, states can reduce the risk that eligible people will lose coverage and decrease administrative burdens for state staff and...

American Rescue Plan Act Strengthens Medicaid, Better Equips States to Combat the Pandemic

The American Rescue Plan Act gives states an additional financial incentive to expand Medicaid, strengthens coverage for current enrollees, and helps states weather the COVID-19 public health and...

States Can Use Rescue Plan’s Medicaid Funding to Strengthen Substance Use Care

Medicaid is key to building a system of care in which people with substance use disorders (SUD) get the care they need, regardless of income or race, as our new paper explains. And the recently...

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