Medicaid enrollees sue Trump administration for approving Kentucky waiver

The KFF researchers highlight the fact that, as the current administration, Congress, and the states continue to make changes to the healthcare landscape, it will be important to monitor how these trends affect coverage trends for LGB individuals. After a homeless stint, he began working as a hospital medical assistant.

About a dozen other states, including Indiana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and ME, have submitted similar proposals to the federal government.

During a press call with reporters on January 11, CMS administrator Verma said a growing body of evidence supports the new policy, which suggests that productive work and community engagement may improve health.

Spending for the Medicaid expansion population increased steadily over time for beneficiaries who remained enrolled in the program, according to a new analysis from Avalere Health. The feds foot 100 percent of the bill at first, but their support gradually ticks down to 90 percent. Expansion also resulted in an 8.6 percentage point increase in the probability that the patient was covered by Medicaid.

But that federal generosity may end soon. They are called “pivot counties” because they voted for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, and then went for Trump, according to Ballotpedia, which tracks elections nationwide. That’s because, on one hand, any new taxes would very likely be passed on to consumers. Expect more efforts to dismantle what remains of Obamacare. A new data note published by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) provides new, nationally representative estimates of insurance coverage changes under the ACA for the approximately 3% of Americans who identify themselves as LGB.

At least nine other states also have applied for federal permission to add work requirements to Medicaid, and additional states are considering doing so. As the editorial board notes, most Medicaid recipients who can work, already do. Many others are caregivers or go to school.

OR is in a battle royal over how to pay for expanded Medicaid.

It looked at periods before the expansion and after, comparing what happened in the 27 states that expanded their Medicaid programs with what happened in the 15 that didn’t, the university said. Imposing a work requirement wouldn’t knock the neediest off the rolls.

Ironically, by taking crucial medical assistance away from people who are already struggling, work requirements will make finding or maintaining employment much more hard.

There are potential pitfalls. “When Medicaid was originally designed, it was designed to help assimilate disabled people back into society to the absolute extent possible, to create work opportunities”. Liberals regard the health-care program as a right for anyone who is eligible and maintain that access to care is an underpinning for poor people to improve their lives. Many could easily fail to get monthly required work hours because of scheduling at their job and lose coverage. That’s hugely expensive and wasteful.

Kentucky is in uncharted terrain, but it won’t be alone.

Medicaid expansion has helped reduce those disparities, the new study found. Would Illinois benefit? Let’s figure it out.