The Senate bill cuts nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid and Marketplace health care, ultimately leaving at least 16 million uninsured and millions more with higher costs to keep their health insurance.
The proposed changes include introducing work requirements, shifting costs to states and individuals, and increasing red tape--all of which would cut off eligible people from critical health coverage.
By Eric Galatas (Excerpt) Suzanne Wikle, associate director of state health policy and advocacy at the Center for Law and Social Policy, said no one could take $880 billion in federal funding out of the system and still provide health insurance to the same number…
As Congress considers slashing up to $880 billion from Medicaid, new details reveal plans to impose harmful “work requirements,” eliminate eligibility for legal immigrants, and restructure funding through risky per capita caps. These proposed changes will lead to mass disenrollment
By Catherine Rampell (Excerpt) This article addresses the assault on immigrant children and cites a CTAN fact sheet and a Medicaid infographic published by CLASP. >> Read the full article here
By Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY (EXCERPT) Meanwhile, Congressional budget resolutions call for massive cuts in federal funding, potentially forcing states to make “incredibly hard decisions” about Medicaid and other programs, according to a report from the left-leaning Center for Law and Social Policy. Read the full…
By Suzanne Wikle Congress is setting state policymakers up to face incredibly hard decisions about everything from health care cuts, deciding who should go hungry, and supporting their rural communities. Both the Senate and House of Representatives have put enormous budget cuts on the table.…
The debate about the tax package is really about whether making billionaires and large corporations wealthier is more important than health care and food for millions of Americans.
In 2024, a record 21.4 million people received their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces. Enrollment gains among Black, Latino, and people with low incomes drove the increased enrollment. Sustaining the policy choices that led to record enrollment and adding in long…
2023 data from the Census Bureau may show an increase in uninsurance as millions of people were disenrolled from Medicaid starting in April 2023 when one of these provisions expired – with more threats ahead.