Medicaid
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Read the latest on Medicaid disenrollment
Medicaid Is In Trouble, But Not For The Reasons Democrats Say
State Medicaid programs are in the midst of disenrolling people who are ineligible for benefits. And Democrats think that’s a catastrophe. Some 3.8 million people have lost Medicaid coverage since April, as states resume standard eligibility reviews that had been paused since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to America’s governors, ...
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After COVID, Medicaid enrollment is declining. That’s cause for celebration
For most Americans, the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency was a relief. But some progressive activists and politicians would seemingly prefer that the crisis — and the gusher of federal spending it unleashed — never end. Democrats are telling everyone who will listen that the end of the ...
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Medicare And Medicaid’s Midlife Crisis Should Be A Wake-Up Call For Reform
Sunday, July 30, marks the 58th anniversary of the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. They came into being in 1965 under President Lyndon Johnson and his “Great Society” program. Unfortunately, the programs are finishing out their sixth decade in a state of crisis. They’ve ballooned into enormously costly entitlements that ...
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Read the latest on the Medicaid purge
Let’s ensure Medicaid covers only the truly eligible
State Medicaid programs are in the midst of removing millions of people from their rolls. According to new data , more than 1.5 million in 27 states have found themselves jettisoned from the program since the end of March. Many Democrats have alleged that this Medicaid purge is unfair and unjust. In reality, it’s essential to ...
Commentary
Nation Past COVID Emergency, Medicaid Needs to Do the Same
With the expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency, states are finally able to remove people from Medicaid who are not eligible for the program under the law. Some are taking full advantage. A recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that at least 565,000 patients in 12 states have been ...
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Implementing work requirements should be a legislative priority
Medicaid work requirements aren’t in the debt limit deal. They should’ve been
President Joe Biden signed a measure on Saturday that suspended the country’s debt limit after weeks of wrangling with Republicans in the House. The legislation averts a default on the nation’s debt. Democrats managed to keep Medicaid work requirements out of the final compromise . That’s a shame. The proposal would have helped rein in federal spending while ...
Commentary
Read the most recent update on the COVID public health emergency
Why is Medicaid still treating COVID-19 as a public health emergency?
The federal public health emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic came to an end Thursday, more than three years after it was first enacted in 2020. That comes on the heels of the World Health Organization’s declaration on May 5 that COVID-19 was no longer a global health emergency. And on ...
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Medicaid Work Requirements Address Laziness Head On
The spending cuts included in the bill House Republicans passed in late April to raise the debt ceiling have Democrats up in arms. But federal spending has soared. It’s now 5 percentage points higher as a share of GDP than the average since 1960. As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy quipped this week, “Is it ...
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Biden wants to add another few billion dollars to the deficit
Don’t expand Medicaid to noncitizens
Last week, the Biden administration released a plan that would open up Medicaid and Obamacare to nearly 580,000 undocumented immigrants. Never mind that the federal deficit is projected to reach $1.4 trillion this year. What’s another few billion dollars? The proposed rule centers around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows undocumented ...
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Democrats’ deceptive rhetoric on Obamacare prices
Americans have until Jan. 15 to secure healthcare coverage through the Obamacare exchanges. This year’s open enrollment period has resulted in more people signing up than ever before. More than 11.5 million people have enrolled in the exchanges as of Dec. 15, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. That’s an 18% increase from ...
Read the latest on Medicaid disenrollment
Medicaid Is In Trouble, But Not For The Reasons Democrats Say
State Medicaid programs are in the midst of disenrolling people who are ineligible for benefits. And Democrats think that’s a catastrophe. Some 3.8 million people have lost Medicaid coverage since April, as states resume standard eligibility reviews that had been paused since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to America’s governors, ...
After COVID, Medicaid enrollment is declining. That’s cause for celebration
For most Americans, the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency was a relief. But some progressive activists and politicians would seemingly prefer that the crisis — and the gusher of federal spending it unleashed — never end. Democrats are telling everyone who will listen that the end of the ...
Medicare And Medicaid’s Midlife Crisis Should Be A Wake-Up Call For Reform
Sunday, July 30, marks the 58th anniversary of the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. They came into being in 1965 under President Lyndon Johnson and his “Great Society” program. Unfortunately, the programs are finishing out their sixth decade in a state of crisis. They’ve ballooned into enormously costly entitlements that ...
Read the latest on the Medicaid purge
Let’s ensure Medicaid covers only the truly eligible
State Medicaid programs are in the midst of removing millions of people from their rolls. According to new data , more than 1.5 million in 27 states have found themselves jettisoned from the program since the end of March. Many Democrats have alleged that this Medicaid purge is unfair and unjust. In reality, it’s essential to ...
Nation Past COVID Emergency, Medicaid Needs to Do the Same
With the expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency, states are finally able to remove people from Medicaid who are not eligible for the program under the law. Some are taking full advantage. A recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that at least 565,000 patients in 12 states have been ...
Implementing work requirements should be a legislative priority
Medicaid work requirements aren’t in the debt limit deal. They should’ve been
President Joe Biden signed a measure on Saturday that suspended the country’s debt limit after weeks of wrangling with Republicans in the House. The legislation averts a default on the nation’s debt. Democrats managed to keep Medicaid work requirements out of the final compromise . That’s a shame. The proposal would have helped rein in federal spending while ...
Read the most recent update on the COVID public health emergency
Why is Medicaid still treating COVID-19 as a public health emergency?
The federal public health emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic came to an end Thursday, more than three years after it was first enacted in 2020. That comes on the heels of the World Health Organization’s declaration on May 5 that COVID-19 was no longer a global health emergency. And on ...
Medicaid Work Requirements Address Laziness Head On
The spending cuts included in the bill House Republicans passed in late April to raise the debt ceiling have Democrats up in arms. But federal spending has soared. It’s now 5 percentage points higher as a share of GDP than the average since 1960. As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy quipped this week, “Is it ...
Biden wants to add another few billion dollars to the deficit
Don’t expand Medicaid to noncitizens
Last week, the Biden administration released a plan that would open up Medicaid and Obamacare to nearly 580,000 undocumented immigrants. Never mind that the federal deficit is projected to reach $1.4 trillion this year. What’s another few billion dollars? The proposed rule centers around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows undocumented ...
Democrats’ deceptive rhetoric on Obamacare prices
Americans have until Jan. 15 to secure healthcare coverage through the Obamacare exchanges. This year’s open enrollment period has resulted in more people signing up than ever before. More than 11.5 million people have enrolled in the exchanges as of Dec. 15, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. That’s an 18% increase from ...
