Work Requirements for Medicaid Would Deepen Disparities in North Carolina’s Infant and Maternal Health
The Trump Administration’s recent guidelines endorsing work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries could entrench existing barriers to successful pregnancies.
Medicaid Work Requirements Will Undermine the Well-Being of Children and Their Families
By imposing work requirements, the Trump Administration is giving states a tool that could undermine the well-being of children and families.
Medicaid Work Requirements Will Have Devastating Impacts for People with Complex Health Needs
For people with disabilities or complex medical conditions, accessing health care services is an absolutely necessary and often times incredibly stressful endeavor. Just getting the care needed to live a healthy and productive life can involve managing multiple appointments with...
“Public Charge” Would Create a Public Health Crisis for Immigrant Families
The most likely effect of the revised rule is that it will scare immigrants away from using benefits they are legally eligible to utilize, hurting children and families.
Director's Corner: What I’m Learning as I’m Teaching
Over the past ten years, I’ve had the opportunity to teach in a health policy course for medical students. And over the course of that decade, I’ve enjoyed working with dozens of future doctors as they study the rapid changes...
And Then There Were Two: Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0 Becomes Second Medicaid Program To Add Work Requirement
Today, the Trump Administration and newly-confirmed Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar renewed the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) 2.0 Section 1115 waiver, including a work requirement on the Medicaid expansion population.
Medicaid Work Requirements: Bad Policy for All, Particularly Harmful to People With Addictions and People of Color
Time after time, the Trump administration talks about our country’s drug overdose crisis, yet its relentless attacks on health care simultaneously undermine access to life-saving treatment and services for people with substance use disorders. The most recent example: forcing Medicaid...
Voters Weigh in For Medicaid (Again)
In a special election two days ago, Oregonians voted overwhelmingly in support of their Medicaid program. Over 60 percent of voters cast their ballot in favor of keeping the provider taxes that cover the state’s share of Medicaid expansion costs....
CHIP Is Finally Funded. What Now?
What did Congress leave on the table?