Medicaid
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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Earlier this month, the Trump administration rescinded the Biden-era guidance for states on how to get the federal government to pay for “health-related social needs” via Medicaid.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.
Commentary
We Can’t Afford Timidity in Revamping Medicaid
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution by the narrowest of margins. The most controversial component of the bill concerns Medicaid. Democrats have castigated the resolution on the grounds that it would make steep cuts to the joint federal-state public healthcare entitlement. Even some Republicans have expressed ...
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Stop the Medicaid provider tax grift
House Republicans are calling for $1.5 trillion in spending cuts next year. Medicaid, the joint federal-state health plan established in 1965 to provide publicly funded health coverage to the poor and disabled, is reportedly where they’ll find much of that money. Eliminating so-called “provider taxes,” which allow states to game ...
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Time to Administer DOGE to Medicare, Medicaid
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is setting its sights on fraud and abuse within Medicare and Medicaid. It’s about time. The two government programs have been cesspools of malfeasance, incompetence, and duplicity for too long. And the cost of all this corruption and waste has grown at a ...
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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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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 ...
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.
We Can’t Afford Timidity in Revamping Medicaid
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution by the narrowest of margins. The most controversial component of the bill concerns Medicaid. Democrats have castigated the resolution on the grounds that it would make steep cuts to the joint federal-state public healthcare entitlement. Even some Republicans have expressed ...
Stop the Medicaid provider tax grift
House Republicans are calling for $1.5 trillion in spending cuts next year. Medicaid, the joint federal-state health plan established in 1965 to provide publicly funded health coverage to the poor and disabled, is reportedly where they’ll find much of that money. Eliminating so-called “provider taxes,” which allow states to game ...
Time to Administer DOGE to Medicare, Medicaid
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is setting its sights on fraud and abuse within Medicare and Medicaid. It’s about time. The two government programs have been cesspools of malfeasance, incompetence, and duplicity for too long. And the cost of all this corruption and waste has grown at a ...
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 ...
