Project 2025 contains several proposed changes to Medicare and Medicaid, framing the programs as being largely responsible for the United States’annual budget deficit, which currently stands at $1.27 trillion for 2024. “In essence, our deficit problem is a Medicare and Medicaid problem,” the Pro...
Elderly individuals receive a range of benefits from enrollment in Medicaid, which have only grown more essential during the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we will be providing an overview of some of the most notable nationwide changes that have come or are coming to Medicaid ...
University of Michigan, wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine,“The key Democratic goal of expanding Medicaid coverage to low-income adults will be implemented in tandem with Republican objectives to control the state’s healthcare costs, increase the role of private health plans, and requi...
This study examines the association of Medicaid expansion with changes in cancer stage at diagnosis during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods:Adults aged 18-64 years newly diagnosed with cancer in 2019 and 2021 were identified from the National Cancer Database. Year 2020 was excluded to avoid ...
cancers associated with pollution are a major killer in some states; all of which require thoughtful and very well-executed policy changes…which will take a lot of time, during which many more of us will die. Like any complex problem the first task is to determine where the problem is. ...
Objective:This study aimed to evaluate associations of Medicaid expansion with health care access for adults with obesity and to explore racial/ethnic differences in these changes in health care access. Methods:Using 2011 to 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data, the study compared healt...
Opponents of block grants have argued that the federal government is far-betterpositionedto finance unexpected changes in Medicaid spending than are individual states. Much of the variation in state Medicaid spending over time reflects changes in local economic conditions, which determine the number of...
Republicans in Washington say they plan to use funding cuts and regulatory changes to dramaticallyshrink Medicaid, the nearly $900-billion-a-year government health insurance program that, along with the related Children's Health Insurance Program, serves about 79 million mostly low-income or disabled...
(CMS) can set rules that protect all enrollees. In response to the challenges seen during unwinding, CMSfinalizednew regulations in April 2024 to address procedural issues that contributed to loss of coverage gained during the pandemic. Theserulesmake several important changes to “promote enrollment...
Changes in Use of Hepatitis C Direct-Acting Antivirals After Access Restrictions Were Eased by State Medicaid Programs doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.0302JAMA Health ForumDavey, SonyaCostello, KevinRusso, MassimilianoDavies, SuzanneLalani, Hussain S.Kesselheim, Aar...