Hannah Katch
Center on Budget
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Biden Directs Federal Agencies to Reconsider Trump Policy Under Which Thousands Lost Medicaid Coverage
The Biden Administration today released an executive order directing federal agencies to “reconsider rules and other policies that limit Americans’ access to health care and consider actions that will protect and strengthen that access.” The order specifically requires the Department of Health and Human Services to re-examine a Trump Administration policy encouraging states to → Read More
State and Federal Policymakers Should Extend Postpartum Medicaid Coverage
States and the federal government have an immediate opportunity to expand access to care for people who have recently given birth — and they should seize it. The country is confronting several simultaneous crises that affect pregnancy and postpartum health, including COVID-19 and the systemic racism that has driven racial disparities in health care access and outcomes. The → Read More
Providers, Patients, Advocates Oppose Tennessee’s Medicaid Block Grant
Tennessee’s proposal to radically change TennCare, the state’s Medicaid program, including by converting its federal financing to an unprecedented block grant, would jeopardize access to care for the 1.4 million T → Read More
Tennessee Block Grant Proposal Threatens Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries
Earlier this year, the Tennessee legislature enacted a bill requiring the governor to seek federal approval to convert federal funding for much of its Medicaid program (TennCare) to a block grant. On September 17, Governor Bill Lee released a Medicaid waiver proposal that would radically change TennCare. → Read More
Montana About to Consider Medicaid Bill Eliminating Coverage for Thousands
Montana lawmakers will hear testimony on two bills this Saturday: one permanently extending the state’s successful Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act beyond its June expiration, which would let Montana keep receiving federal funds to cover over 96,000 low-income adults, the other continuing the expansion for just 18 months and taki → Read More
Medicaid Restrictions Impede Innovation to Improve Care, Reduce Costs
President Trump’s 2020 budget doubles down on the Administration’s unprecedented policy of letting states take away Medicaid coverage from people not meeting work requirements by proposing work requirements nationwide. → Read More
Proposed Restrictions Could Undermine Montana’s Successful Medicaid Expansion
Montana’s Medicaid expansion has been extremely successful, extending coverage and access to care to nearly 95,000 low-income adults since January 2016 and connecting many with workforce development services.[1] But Montana policymakers are reportedly considering proposals to take Medicaid coverage away from people who don’t meet a work requirement, charge low-income adults → Read More
Wisconsin Medicaid Waiver Will Reduce Coverage, Create New Barriers to Care
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved Wisconsin’s Medicaid waiver proposal, which will significantly restrict Medicaid coverage for low-income adults in a number of significant ways. → Read More
Medicaid Work Requirements Will Reduce Low-Income Families' Access to Care and Worsen Health Outcomes
New Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services guidance allows states — for the first time — to require work or work-related activities as a condition of Medicaid eligibility. → Read More
Medicaid Work Requirement Would Harm Unemployed, Not Promote Work
CMS’ new guidance doesn’t provide a convincing rationale for the policy reversal, which could threaten Medicaid coverage for many adults and actually make it harder for some adults to succeed in the labor market due to their loss of health coverage. → Read More
Yes, Medicaid Improves Access to Health Coverage and Care
Senator Bill Cassidy’s claim that “patients covered through Medicaid often have worse outcomes than those who are covered through other forms of insurance” is just the latest example of congressional Republicans selectively using data to portray Medicaid and other safety net programs in a negative light, while downplaying much more extensive data that show → Read More
Medicaid Expansion Is Critical for States Fighting Opioid Epidemic
As the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee meets tomorrow on the federal response to the opioid epidemic, it should consider the recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report showing that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion is providing essential mental health and substance use disorder treatment. → Read More
Like Other ACA Repeal Bills, Cassidy-Graham Would Cap and Deeply Cut Medicaid
Senators Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham’s bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would deeply cut Medicaid by ending the ACA’s Medicaid expansion and converting the rest of Medicaid to a per capita cap. → Read More
Despite Republican Claims, Beneficiaries Don’t Think Medicaid Is Broken
To justify their proposals for sweeping cuts to Medicaid, Republican congressional leaders and Trump Administration officials frequently claim that it provides poor quality and access to care. But these claims are false, as a new study underscores. → Read More
To Protect Children, Senate Republicans Must Drop Medicaid Per Capita Cap
The Senate Republican health bill, like the House-passed bill, would convert Medicaid to a per capita cap, but it would cut Medicaid even more deeply and pose an even greater threat to coverage for all Medicaid beneficiaries — including children. → Read More
House Republican Health Bill Would Severely Harm Medicaid Managed Care Plans
The bill would cause significant financial harm to Medicaid managed care plans, which serve a large majority of Medicaid beneficiaries. → Read More
House GOP Health Bill’s Per Capita Cap Threatens Everyone’s Medicaid Coverage
By converting Medicaid to a per capita cap or block grant, the House-passed Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act threatens coverage for all Medicaid beneficiaries. Here’s why: → Read More
Medicaid Works, in 5 Charts
The House-passed bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would severely damage Medicaid and make quality care less accessible to low-income Americans — the very feature of Medicaid that a new Commonwealth Fund analysis highlights. → Read More
This Mother’s Day, Congress Should Reject Cuts in Women’s Health Coverage
Federal policymakers should consider a more practical gift than flowers or chocolate this Mother’s Day: they should support women’s health coverage by rejecting the House bill that repeals the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and cuts $839 billon from Medicaid, reducing enrollment by 14 million. → Read More
Medicaid Works for Women — But Proposed Cuts Would Have Harsh, Disproportionate Impact
Women would bear a disproportionate share of the burden. → Read More