Medicaid
Commentary
Business Policy CMS Shouldn’t Expand Its Broken Competitive Bidding Model
Durable medical equipment (DME) such as CPAP machines and hospital beds helps keep many patients out of expensive nursing home care and in their own homes. Unfortunately, creating the right payment model has long eluded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Disconcertingly, they now plan to expand a ...
Commentary
Trump’s Medicaid reform is moral and necessary
Among the most contentious provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, are its Medicaid work requirements. Starting in 2027, able-bodied, working-age Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled through Obamacare’s expansion of the program must spend at least 80 hours a month on ...
Commentary
The rural hospital rescue fund is a fraud
Rural hospitals are supposedly in dire financial straits. And the forthcoming Medicaid “cuts” authorized by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could put hundreds more facilities deep in the red. At least, that’s the prevailing narrative inside the beltway — and the justification for the $50 billion rural hospital “rescue” ...
Commentary
Medicaid At 60: A Safety Net In Need Of Serious Repair
Today, Medicaid turns 60. But this will be no diamond jubilee. What began in 1965 as a modest safety-net program has ballooned into the largest health entitlement in the country, covering nearly 80 million Americans, costing close to $900 billion a year, and delivering poor value for both patients and ...
Commentary
Feds right to curtail California’s Medicaid scam
On Independence Day, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is projected to reduce enrollment in Medicaid programs throughout the country, including Medi-Cal in California. But Californians should cheer, not jeer, these coverage “losses.” The law will primarily disenroll people who should have never been covered by ...
Commentary
The Big Beautiful Bill Fixes One Drug Problem—But Highlights An Even Bigger One
Buried within the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law July 4, is a provision that could improve or even save the lives of the 30 million Americans suffering from rare diseases. That provision is the Orphan Cures Act, which exempts certain drugs that treat ...
Commentary
No, Donald Trump didn’t just slash Medicaid
Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now law. Democrats have wasted no time accusing the GOP of enshrining devastating “cuts” to Medicaid, the joint federal-state entitlement that provides health coverage for low-income Americans. That’s rubbish. The measure takes steps to restrain Medicaid’s rampant growth in recent years so that ...
Commentary
Don’t believe the CBO’s spin on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
In a recent letter to top Democrats, the Congressional Budget Office claimed that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act would kick millions of people off their health insurance. That warning is misleading. Millions of people are improperly enrolled in Medicaid and taxpayer-subsidized plans through Obamacare’s exchanges. Republicans are rightly ...
Commentary
Away With Provider Taxes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently published a rule targeting “provider taxes,” a financing gimmick states use to harvest extra Medicaid dollars from the federal government. Good on the Trump administration. Over the last decade and a half, states have exploited provider taxes and other financing loopholes to ...
Commentary
Republicans are right to reform Medicaid
House Republicans held the mark-up last week for their reconciliation package, which includes several significant reforms to Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement that provides health benefits to roughly one in five Americans. The package is not perfect. But it would restore some measure of fiscal sanity to the program by, among ...
Business Policy CMS Shouldn’t Expand Its Broken Competitive Bidding Model
Durable medical equipment (DME) such as CPAP machines and hospital beds helps keep many patients out of expensive nursing home care and in their own homes. Unfortunately, creating the right payment model has long eluded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Disconcertingly, they now plan to expand a ...
Trump’s Medicaid reform is moral and necessary
Among the most contentious provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, are its Medicaid work requirements. Starting in 2027, able-bodied, working-age Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled through Obamacare’s expansion of the program must spend at least 80 hours a month on ...
The rural hospital rescue fund is a fraud
Rural hospitals are supposedly in dire financial straits. And the forthcoming Medicaid “cuts” authorized by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could put hundreds more facilities deep in the red. At least, that’s the prevailing narrative inside the beltway — and the justification for the $50 billion rural hospital “rescue” ...
Medicaid At 60: A Safety Net In Need Of Serious Repair
Today, Medicaid turns 60. But this will be no diamond jubilee. What began in 1965 as a modest safety-net program has ballooned into the largest health entitlement in the country, covering nearly 80 million Americans, costing close to $900 billion a year, and delivering poor value for both patients and ...
Feds right to curtail California’s Medicaid scam
On Independence Day, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is projected to reduce enrollment in Medicaid programs throughout the country, including Medi-Cal in California. But Californians should cheer, not jeer, these coverage “losses.” The law will primarily disenroll people who should have never been covered by ...
The Big Beautiful Bill Fixes One Drug Problem—But Highlights An Even Bigger One
Buried within the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law July 4, is a provision that could improve or even save the lives of the 30 million Americans suffering from rare diseases. That provision is the Orphan Cures Act, which exempts certain drugs that treat ...
No, Donald Trump didn’t just slash Medicaid
Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now law. Democrats have wasted no time accusing the GOP of enshrining devastating “cuts” to Medicaid, the joint federal-state entitlement that provides health coverage for low-income Americans. That’s rubbish. The measure takes steps to restrain Medicaid’s rampant growth in recent years so that ...
Don’t believe the CBO’s spin on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
In a recent letter to top Democrats, the Congressional Budget Office claimed that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act would kick millions of people off their health insurance. That warning is misleading. Millions of people are improperly enrolled in Medicaid and taxpayer-subsidized plans through Obamacare’s exchanges. Republicans are rightly ...
Away With Provider Taxes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently published a rule targeting “provider taxes,” a financing gimmick states use to harvest extra Medicaid dollars from the federal government. Good on the Trump administration. Over the last decade and a half, states have exploited provider taxes and other financing loopholes to ...
Republicans are right to reform Medicaid
House Republicans held the mark-up last week for their reconciliation package, which includes several significant reforms to Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement that provides health benefits to roughly one in five Americans. The package is not perfect. But it would restore some measure of fiscal sanity to the program by, among ...
