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.
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Kentucky Sends an Ominous Signal About The Future of Medicaid
The Bluegrass State aims to become the first state to implement Medicaid work requirements. But it’s not the only one moving in that direction.
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Medicaid Is the Future of American Health Insurance — If It Can Survive the Next Two Weeks
More than ever, there’s a desire in the public for simple, secure, affordable health coverage.
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By Blocking Medicaid, Brownback Shows There is No Limit to His Trickle-Down Folly
The Kansas governor—our Trickle Downer of the Week—vetoed Medicaid expansion legislation, capping his tenure with one more outburst of cruelty.
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Taking a Scalpel to Medicaid
Republican claims of their bill’s great flexibility for the states are a sham cover for disabling cuts.
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The Republicans’ $370 Billion Cut to Medicaid
Ryan’s ACA replacement relies on a venerable GOP scam—shifting to block grants—to cut off health-care coverage for millions of Americans.
