Maryland will enroll people in health coverage, which could be free for many, via state tax returns.
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Another GOP Brainstorm—“You’ll Be Healthier If We Take Away Your Health Care”—Struck Down in Court
A federal judge rejects Medicaid work requirement programs in Arkansas and Kentucky because kicking people off their health insurance won’t somehow improve their health.
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How SNAP and Medicaid Work Requirements Will Hurt Workers
The problem isn’t that people don’t want to work. It’s the volatile and unstable nature of the low-wage labor market.
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Nebraska Voters Could Decide to Expand Medicaid
While many Republican governors have refused to expand Medicaid, some conservative-led states may have to resign themselves to letting direct democracy decide the question, thanks to the efforts of advocacy groups across the country. In Nebraska last week, advocacy group Insure the Good Life announced that it had received the number of required signatures for […]
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Tennessee Republicans Experience Cognitive Dissonance on Poverty
Tennessee has increased welfare benefits for the first time in 22 years, while also proposing to kick people off medical and food assistance.
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Indiana to Join Kentucky in Tying Medicaid to Work
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, will announce today that Indiana will follow Kentucky’s lead and receive approval to implement work requirements in the state’s Medicaid program, according to a Politico report. Last month, the Trump administration signaled they’d allow requiring work for low-income people seeking health-care assistance, and Kentucky quickly […]
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Buying Into Medicaid: A Viable Path for Universal Coverage
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine as part of a joint project with the Century Foundation on Health Reform 2020. Subscribe here to The American Prospect. With the failure (so far) of Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, emboldened Democrats are releasing proposals and […]
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Health-Care Reform’s Disability Blind Spot
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine as part of a joint project with the Century Foundation on Health Reform 2020. Subscribe here to The American Prospect. Imagine that you attend a country music concert or a quiet Texas church service, or are simply stopped at a local red […]
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How Maine’s Medicaid Expansion Campaign Got to Yes
Frustration with the status quo and a powerful GOTV campaign helped produce the country’s first Medicaid expansion directly decreed by the voters.
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Weakening Medicaid From Within
The Trump administration is poised to misuse its legal authority in an effort to cull people from the Medicaid rolls.