Posts for Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion
Medicaid is Growing Up. It’s Time to Go to School.
Thanks to a clarification by CMS regarding the “free care” rule a little over a year ago, schools can be reimbursed for services provided to Medicaid-eligible students. This was a subject of a conference call and toolkit released earlier this...
The Takeaway - Flint: How Did This Happen And What Does It Mean?
Flint: How Did This Happen And What Does It Mean? In my opinion, the biggest health care story of the week is the continued fallout from the lead contamination of the water supply in Flint, Michigan. The Flint crisis underscores...
The List of Benefits of Closing the Gap for Families and States Keeps Growing
Here’s another one to add to the growing list of benefits of closing the coverage gap. A recent study in Health Affairs confirms that closing the coverage gap improves access to and affordability of care for low-income adults. Compared to...
New Report Highlights Progress, Room for Improvement in Health Coverage Gains for Hispanic Children
Last Friday, the Georgetown Center for Children and the National Council of La Raza co-released a report detailing recent gains in health coverage for Hispanic children. Among the key findings in the report is that the uninsured rate among Hispanic children dropped...
Arizona Kids are Falling Through the Cracks Without Active KidsCare Program
by Joe Fu, Children’s Action Alliance For the fifth year in a row, Arizona had the third highest child uninsured rate in the nation. In 2014, 10% of Arizona’s children were uninsured compared to about 6% nationally, according to a new...
Closing the Coverage Gap: How a Sweet Deal Might Get Even Sweeter
Talk about sweetening the pot. Today, the White House announced that President Obama’s Proposed 2017 Budget will create a new incentive for the remaining 19 states to close the coverage gap and insure millions of Americans. President Obama’s proposal would...
The Takeaway 2016 New Year’s Edition
Why Is This News? 2016 opened with yet another vote by the Republican controlled Congress to repeal the ACA coupled with more muttering about a replace agenda — we really really mean it this time. Maybe by the time we are...
The Takeaway: Gun Violence is a Public Health Issue. Time for Congress to Treat it Like One
Gun violence in the US seems to have reached epidemic proportions averaging at least one mass shooting per day in 2015. According to OECD data 87 percent of the children in the developed world who die from gun violence live in the...
Children in Foster Care Need More Holistic Health Care
Over the last few years, states have witnessed widespread failings within agencies charged with overseeing the well-being of children in foster care.
Medicaid is Growing Up. It’s Time to Go to School.
Thanks to a clarification by CMS regarding the “free care” rule a little over a year ago, schools can be reimbursed for services provided to Medicaid-eligible students. This was a subject of a conference call and toolkit released earlier this...
The Takeaway - Flint: How Did This Happen And What Does It Mean?
Flint: How Did This Happen And What Does It Mean? In my opinion, the biggest health care story of the week is the continued fallout from the lead contamination of the water supply in Flint, Michigan. The Flint crisis underscores...
The List of Benefits of Closing the Gap for Families and States Keeps Growing
Here’s another one to add to the growing list of benefits of closing the coverage gap. A recent study in Health Affairs confirms that closing the coverage gap improves access to and affordability of care for low-income adults. Compared to...
New Report Highlights Progress, Room for Improvement in Health Coverage Gains for Hispanic Children
Last Friday, the Georgetown Center for Children and the National Council of La Raza co-released a report detailing recent gains in health coverage for Hispanic children. Among the key findings in the report is that the uninsured rate among Hispanic children dropped...
Arizona Kids are Falling Through the Cracks Without Active KidsCare Program
by Joe Fu, Children’s Action Alliance For the fifth year in a row, Arizona had the third highest child uninsured rate in the nation. In 2014, 10% of Arizona’s children were uninsured compared to about 6% nationally, according to a new...
Closing the Coverage Gap: How a Sweet Deal Might Get Even Sweeter
Talk about sweetening the pot. Today, the White House announced that President Obama’s Proposed 2017 Budget will create a new incentive for the remaining 19 states to close the coverage gap and insure millions of Americans. President Obama’s proposal would...
The Takeaway 2016 New Year’s Edition
Why Is This News? 2016 opened with yet another vote by the Republican controlled Congress to repeal the ACA coupled with more muttering about a replace agenda — we really really mean it this time. Maybe by the time we are...
The Takeaway: Gun Violence is a Public Health Issue. Time for Congress to Treat it Like One
Gun violence in the US seems to have reached epidemic proportions averaging at least one mass shooting per day in 2015. According to OECD data 87 percent of the children in the developed world who die from gun violence live in the...
Children in Foster Care Need More Holistic Health Care
Over the last few years, states have witnessed widespread failings within agencies charged with overseeing the well-being of children in foster care.