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Federal Cuts to Medicaid Could End Medicaid Expansion and Affect Hospitals in Nearly Every State
In states that choose to end expanded Medicaid eligibility, fewer covered beneficiaries mean hospitals will see less ...
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Medicare Drug Price Negotiations: All You Need to Know
Under the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, the HHS secretary negotiates directly with manufacturers on the prices ...
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More Than 100,000 Michigan Residents Nearly Lost Medicaid Coverage Under Work Requirements
In a sense, that was pretty good. In 2019, a Manatt Health analysis of Michigan data predicted a coverage loss as high as 183 ...
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Vision and Hearing Care Are Essential to Seniors’ Health, but Many Believe They Don’t Need It
Untreated vision and hearing problems in older people may increase the risk of falls, social isolation, and depression, and ...
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Medicaid Cuts Could Increase Maternal Mortality and Jeopardize Women’s Health
Twenty-four million women rely on Medicaid for everything from maternal health and contraception to vaccinations and cancer screenings. Using data from the Commonwealth Fund’s 2024 State Scorecard on ...
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How National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Lead to Large-Scale Job Losses, Harm State Economies, and Strain Budgets
The Republican-led Congress has passed a “concurrent budget resolution” under which leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate have agreed to identify at least $1.5 trillion in savings as ...
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Deep Medicaid Spending Cuts Put Health Care Coverage at Risk for One of Five Enrolled Children
As part of 2025 budget reconciliation, Congress is expected to consider unprecedented cuts to Medicaid funding, with several House members stating their intention to “fix flaws in the program that ...
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Proposed Rule Will Make Consumers Pay More for Health Insurance and Care in the ACA Marketplaces
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplaces are providing affordable health insurance plans to a record 24 million Americans in a price-competitive market. Working-class people have enjoyed lower ...
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How Private Equity Deals Are Reshaping Your Health Care
When private equity firms buy your local hospital, your primary care doctor’s office, or your local nursing home, they profit. But what happens to those health care institutions, the patients they ...
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How Does Medicaid Benefit States?
Medicaid is the federal–state public health insurance program created in 1965 to expand access to health services and improve outcomes for people with low income. One in five Americans are enrolled in ...
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Mandar Bodas
Dr. Bodas joined Mullan Institute as a Research Scientist in 2020. His current work focuses on the geographic variation in the workforce serving pregnant Medicaid beneficiaries, exploring factors ...
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Medicaid’s Role in Mental Health and Substance Use Care
Medicaid is a major source of health insurance coverage for people with low incomes and disabilities. The program also pays for much of the mental health and substance use care provided in the United ...