In this brief, we recommend steps states and advocates can take before churn returns to protect people who remain eligible for Medicaid and conserve state resources.
By Suzanne Wikle, Jennifer Wagner, Farah Erzouki, and Jennifer Sullivan Medicaid is the largest health insurer in the United States, at over 80 million enrollees. Its numerous benefits to enrollees include greater likelihood of completing school, higher wages, better health outcomes, and less medical debt…
Christine Johnson-Staub and Isha Weerasinghe offer a set of principles policymakers and other stakeholders can consider as they implement ARPA’s mental health provisions.
Public benefit programs such as Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and refundable tax credits like the Child Tax Credit provide critical supports to help people meet their basic needs, but too often, individuals and families are…
The U.S. core benefit programs are operated with substantial federal funding and oversight, but with extensive variation at the local level. As a result, there is a significant difference in the experience of a low-income person seeking assistance depending on where they live.
This paper describes how Pennsylvania advocates tackled one manifestation of this problem: a very low rate of automated Medicaid renewals. Advocates can use the strategies we found effective to lift barriers facing people enrolled in other public programs. This brief was written as part of…
Three new policy briefs written by our partners in New Mexico, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania can help state advocates across the country better understand the leverage points for improving the administration of Medicaid and SNAP.
Any discussion about strengthening Medicaid should build on this current successful foundation rather than threatening states' financial stability—and patients' health and well-being—with drastic changes to the program's financing and structure.
On September 12, CLASP along with the National Housing Law Project and the Food Research & Action Center, and more than 20 other groups, filed an amicus brief in several cases opposing the Trump Administration’s Public Charge Rule. The amicus brief argues that the Public…