Posts for Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion
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.
Dear South, There's Hope!
In the last two weeks, some major developments have rekindled hope for hundreds of thousands of Southerners left in the coverage gap. Since a disproportionate number of people in the coverage gap, 90 percent, live and work in the South,...
Marketplace-CHIP Comparability Study Is Out: Where Do We Go from Here?
Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, Health and Human Services (HHS) released the long awaited Certification of Comparability of Pediatric Coverage Offered by Qualified Health Plans.
The Takeaway: Reason Slowly Gaining Ground Over Ideology in Medicaid Debate
Reason Slowly Gaining Ground Over Ideology in Medicaid Debate When the Supreme Court ruled that states were not required to expand Medicaid to cover all poor adults, as originally envisioned by the ACA, it touched off a fierce political struggle...
The Takeaway: More Signs of ACA Success but There's Still Work Left to Do
Michael Miller talks insurance merger mania, tackling out-of-pocket costs and more data touting the success of the ACA in this week’s edition of The Takeaway.
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.
Dear South, There's Hope!
In the last two weeks, some major developments have rekindled hope for hundreds of thousands of Southerners left in the coverage gap. Since a disproportionate number of people in the coverage gap, 90 percent, live and work in the South,...
Marketplace-CHIP Comparability Study Is Out: Where Do We Go from Here?
Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, Health and Human Services (HHS) released the long awaited Certification of Comparability of Pediatric Coverage Offered by Qualified Health Plans.
The Takeaway: Reason Slowly Gaining Ground Over Ideology in Medicaid Debate
Reason Slowly Gaining Ground Over Ideology in Medicaid Debate When the Supreme Court ruled that states were not required to expand Medicaid to cover all poor adults, as originally envisioned by the ACA, it touched off a fierce political struggle...
The Takeaway: More Signs of ACA Success but There's Still Work Left to Do
Michael Miller talks insurance merger mania, tackling out-of-pocket costs and more data touting the success of the ACA in this week’s edition of The Takeaway.