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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate would not vote on the Republican leadership’s health bill until after the July 4th recess.
CLASP Director of Income and Work Supports Elizabeth Lower-Basch is quoted about the potential negative impact of Medicaid work requirements.
Suzanne Wikle and Jessica Gehr, members of the income and work supports team, wrote an article for the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families about lessons from TANF and CCDBG that show the dangers of changing Medicaid to block grants.
In this op-ed, Suzanne Wikle explains the importance of Medicaid, especially for workers in Kansas.
On the first day after the 115th Congress was sworn in, Republican leaders fired their opening salvo in a plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the number of people with health insurance has reached an all-time high. Twenty million more people are now insured than prior to the ACA. Despite this success, we’ve heard the “repeal and replace” mantra since the ACA was passed six years ago.
People who have health insurance are more likely to receive care and less likely to experience financial hardship or bankruptcy from medical bills. And thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the rate of uninsurance has hit a historic low of 10.5 percent, which means that more people benefit from coverage—but too many are still without it.
On the eve of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2013, Kentucky’s uninsurance rate was 16 percent—higher than the national average.
Medicaid was back in the news recently, in large part because of two proposals that would be significant steps backwards for the critical safety-net program that provides affordable health insurance to more than 70 million Americans.
Suzanne Wikle submitted comments to the Food and Nutrition Service on its proposed rule around promotional outreach and recruitment activities in SNAP.