Medicaid
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Trump is right: Housing isn’t healthcare
The Trump administration shut off federal funding through Medicaid for non-healthcare-related services such as housekeeping, groceries, and internet earlier this month. It’s about time. Medicaid exists to provide health benefits to the nation’s neediest, not to subsidize a laundry list of liberal priorities. Over the last two decades, it has ...
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Common-Sense Fixes in Medicaid Could Save Hundreds of Billions, Making Reform Less Daunting Than Pundits Suggest
Congressional Republicans are currently negotiating a budget reconciliation package that aims to wrest $880 billion in savings from Medicaid over the coming decade. Democrats have asserted that this effort will be devastating to Medicaid’s beneficiaries. They underestimate just how widespread waste, fraud, and abuse are in the program. Read the ...
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California can’t afford free health care for undocumented immigrants
California’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit could soon grow worse. State tax revenue dropped over 14% in the recession that followed the dot-com bubble, nearly 14% during the Great Financial Crisis from 2008 to 2009, and almost 8% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with financial markets reeling thanks ...
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To Save Medicaid, We Have to Cut It
Medicaid costs taxpayers nearly $900 billion a year. That figure is on track to exceed $1 trillion by the end of this decade. The entitlement is growing faster than the economy. That kind of growth is unsustainable — and risks shredding the safety net for those who need it most. ...
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End Medicaid Money Laundering
Earlier this month, Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., spoke for 25 hours straight, breaking a Senate record. His goal, at least at the outset, was to “defend” Medicare and Medicaid from Republicans’ proposed cuts. “The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are right now discussing how to cut these programs,” Booker ...
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Medicaid reform is popular
Congressional Republicans keep dodging questions about cuts to Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement that covers nearly 80 million people. But they should not be shy about their plans to reform the entitlement. New polling shows that many of the GOP’s ideas for Medicaid aren’t just smart policy. They’re popular. A survey ...
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Democrats in Calif. Put Healthcare of Illegal Residents First
Free healthcare doesn’t come cheap. That’s one lesson Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., is learning the hard way. Since Newsom officially extended the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to all undocumented immigrants last year, the entitlement’s costs have ballooned. Read the op-ed here.
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Social Needs-Based Medicaid a Costly, Useless ATM
Earlier this month, the Trump administration rescinded the Biden-era guidance for states on how to get the federal government to pay for “health-related social needs” via Medicaid. The guidance stretched the definition of “healthcare” to absurd lengths. Are carpet replacement and tenant-rights education healthcare? The Biden administration thought so. Read ...
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The Future of Healthcare Under Donald Trump
On this episode of All Things, Sally Pipes–healthcare aficionado and author of “The World’s Medicine Chest”–lays out the risks of Joe Biden’s coming drug price controls, the need to cut billions in waste and fraud from Medicaid, the fading chances for replacing ObamaCare, and the upsides and downsides of some ...
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In defense of Medicaid work requirements
Republicans are considering cuts to Medicaid, the joint federal-state health plan that provides taxpayer-funded health coverage to 80 million adults and children. Many in the GOP would like to require able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries to work in exchange for coverage. That’s a good idea. Read the entire op-ed here.
Trump is right: Housing isn’t healthcare
The Trump administration shut off federal funding through Medicaid for non-healthcare-related services such as housekeeping, groceries, and internet earlier this month. It’s about time. Medicaid exists to provide health benefits to the nation’s neediest, not to subsidize a laundry list of liberal priorities. Over the last two decades, it has ...
Common-Sense Fixes in Medicaid Could Save Hundreds of Billions, Making Reform Less Daunting Than Pundits Suggest
Congressional Republicans are currently negotiating a budget reconciliation package that aims to wrest $880 billion in savings from Medicaid over the coming decade. Democrats have asserted that this effort will be devastating to Medicaid’s beneficiaries. They underestimate just how widespread waste, fraud, and abuse are in the program. Read the ...
California can’t afford free health care for undocumented immigrants
California’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit could soon grow worse. State tax revenue dropped over 14% in the recession that followed the dot-com bubble, nearly 14% during the Great Financial Crisis from 2008 to 2009, and almost 8% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with financial markets reeling thanks ...
To Save Medicaid, We Have to Cut It
Medicaid costs taxpayers nearly $900 billion a year. That figure is on track to exceed $1 trillion by the end of this decade. The entitlement is growing faster than the economy. That kind of growth is unsustainable — and risks shredding the safety net for those who need it most. ...
End Medicaid Money Laundering
Earlier this month, Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., spoke for 25 hours straight, breaking a Senate record. His goal, at least at the outset, was to “defend” Medicare and Medicaid from Republicans’ proposed cuts. “The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are right now discussing how to cut these programs,” Booker ...
Medicaid reform is popular
Congressional Republicans keep dodging questions about cuts to Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement that covers nearly 80 million people. But they should not be shy about their plans to reform the entitlement. New polling shows that many of the GOP’s ideas for Medicaid aren’t just smart policy. They’re popular. A survey ...
Democrats in Calif. Put Healthcare of Illegal Residents First
Free healthcare doesn’t come cheap. That’s one lesson Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., is learning the hard way. Since Newsom officially extended the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to all undocumented immigrants last year, the entitlement’s costs have ballooned. Read the op-ed here.
Social Needs-Based Medicaid a Costly, Useless ATM
Earlier this month, the Trump administration rescinded the Biden-era guidance for states on how to get the federal government to pay for “health-related social needs” via Medicaid. The guidance stretched the definition of “healthcare” to absurd lengths. Are carpet replacement and tenant-rights education healthcare? The Biden administration thought so. Read ...
The Future of Healthcare Under Donald Trump
On this episode of All Things, Sally Pipes–healthcare aficionado and author of “The World’s Medicine Chest”–lays out the risks of Joe Biden’s coming drug price controls, the need to cut billions in waste and fraud from Medicaid, the fading chances for replacing ObamaCare, and the upsides and downsides of some ...
In defense of Medicaid work requirements
Republicans are considering cuts to Medicaid, the joint federal-state health plan that provides taxpayer-funded health coverage to 80 million adults and children. Many in the GOP would like to require able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries to work in exchange for coverage. That’s a good idea. Read the entire op-ed here.
