Medicaid
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No, $900B in Medicaid Spending Is Not Making Americans Healthier
During his confirmation hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the incoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, posed a key question about the nation’s largest health insurance program. “Do you think all that money, the $900 billion we’re sending to Medicaid every year, has made Americans healthy?” he ...
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Unaffordable Medicaid Means We Should Forget It
U.S. House Republicans recently released a list of proposals for slashing federal spending by as much as $5.7 trillion. A significant portion of the proposed savings — a whopping $2.3 trillion — would come from Medicaid. Progressives are decrying the GOP document as a heartless assault on an essential safety-net ...
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Learn more about saving Medicaid
Trump can fix Medicaid
Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid, the entitlement that provides health coverage to roughly 1 in 5 people. Requiring beneficiaries to work, volunteer, or attend school as a condition of receiving coverage and block-granting federal Medicaid funds to the states are under consideration. But with complete control of ...
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Learn more about policies hurting patients
Left’s Medicaid Fixation Harms Patients
Over a three-month period last year, Medicaid enrollment declined by roughly 2 million, a new study in the journal Health Affairs reveals. The sudden contraction was mostly the result of a wind-down of COVID-19-era policies that prevented states from removing people from the program, even if they were not legally ...
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Learn more about how Harris' plan might promote healthcare fraud
Will Harris’ Promises of New Era for Healthcare Invite Fraud?
For a former prosecutor and Calif. Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris sure seems to have a laissez-faire attitude toward fraud. In the race to enroll as many Americans as possible in Medicaid and in Obamacare exchange plans, the Biden-Harris administration has looked the other way as millions of Americans receive publicly ...
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Women, Children, Disabled Pay The Price For Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion
Obamacare greatly expanded Medicaid eligibility. As a result, about 20 million able-bodied, working-age adults who were previously ineligible are now enrolled in the program. But as a new report from the Paragon Health Institute makes clear, their gains have come at the expense of the pregnant women, children, and people ...
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Medicaid’s Waivers Are Out of Control – But Also Show How to Save the Program
Are rental vouchers a form of “health care?” Federal bureaucrats evidently think so. They’ve recently approved waivers for states to fund these benefits through Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program that covers over 76 million Americans. These waivers constitute an enormous federal subsidy to state governments, with up to ...
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Read the latest on out-of-control Medicaid spending
Medicaid is for health care, not housing
Now, however, Medicaid is funding a slew of additional benefits — from meal deliveries to rent — on the pretext that they “influence health status” for the better. And next on that list of benefits could be affordable housing. Health insurers are investing billions in the construction of new apartments ...
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Read the latest on Medicaid reform
Limit Medicaid enrollment to alleviate wait times
The Biden administration is trying to help people on Medicaid see the doctor faster. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just finalized a regulation establishing a maximum wait of 15 business days for a Medicaid beneficiary to get a primary care appointment. Decreeing that wait times must be shorter ...
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Medicaid’s Mission Creep Is Hurting the Poor and Disabled
What do air conditioners, mini fridges, and air purifiers have in common? According to Medicaid authorities in Oregon, they’re all forms of health care. Across the country, state Medicaid programs are suffering from a serious case of mission creep. Officials are trying to use Medicaid dollars to pay for everything ...
No, $900B in Medicaid Spending Is Not Making Americans Healthier
During his confirmation hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the incoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, posed a key question about the nation’s largest health insurance program. “Do you think all that money, the $900 billion we’re sending to Medicaid every year, has made Americans healthy?” he ...
Unaffordable Medicaid Means We Should Forget It
U.S. House Republicans recently released a list of proposals for slashing federal spending by as much as $5.7 trillion. A significant portion of the proposed savings — a whopping $2.3 trillion — would come from Medicaid. Progressives are decrying the GOP document as a heartless assault on an essential safety-net ...
Learn more about saving Medicaid
Trump can fix Medicaid
Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid, the entitlement that provides health coverage to roughly 1 in 5 people. Requiring beneficiaries to work, volunteer, or attend school as a condition of receiving coverage and block-granting federal Medicaid funds to the states are under consideration. But with complete control of ...
Learn more about policies hurting patients
Left’s Medicaid Fixation Harms Patients
Over a three-month period last year, Medicaid enrollment declined by roughly 2 million, a new study in the journal Health Affairs reveals. The sudden contraction was mostly the result of a wind-down of COVID-19-era policies that prevented states from removing people from the program, even if they were not legally ...
Learn more about how Harris' plan might promote healthcare fraud
Will Harris’ Promises of New Era for Healthcare Invite Fraud?
For a former prosecutor and Calif. Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris sure seems to have a laissez-faire attitude toward fraud. In the race to enroll as many Americans as possible in Medicaid and in Obamacare exchange plans, the Biden-Harris administration has looked the other way as millions of Americans receive publicly ...
Women, Children, Disabled Pay The Price For Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion
Obamacare greatly expanded Medicaid eligibility. As a result, about 20 million able-bodied, working-age adults who were previously ineligible are now enrolled in the program. But as a new report from the Paragon Health Institute makes clear, their gains have come at the expense of the pregnant women, children, and people ...
Medicaid’s Waivers Are Out of Control – But Also Show How to Save the Program
Are rental vouchers a form of “health care?” Federal bureaucrats evidently think so. They’ve recently approved waivers for states to fund these benefits through Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program that covers over 76 million Americans. These waivers constitute an enormous federal subsidy to state governments, with up to ...
Read the latest on out-of-control Medicaid spending
Medicaid is for health care, not housing
Now, however, Medicaid is funding a slew of additional benefits — from meal deliveries to rent — on the pretext that they “influence health status” for the better. And next on that list of benefits could be affordable housing. Health insurers are investing billions in the construction of new apartments ...
Read the latest on Medicaid reform
Limit Medicaid enrollment to alleviate wait times
The Biden administration is trying to help people on Medicaid see the doctor faster. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just finalized a regulation establishing a maximum wait of 15 business days for a Medicaid beneficiary to get a primary care appointment. Decreeing that wait times must be shorter ...
Medicaid’s Mission Creep Is Hurting the Poor and Disabled
What do air conditioners, mini fridges, and air purifiers have in common? According to Medicaid authorities in Oregon, they’re all forms of health care. Across the country, state Medicaid programs are suffering from a serious case of mission creep. Officials are trying to use Medicaid dollars to pay for everything ...
