States That Expand Medicaid Detect More Cases Of DiabetesAnders Kelto
Interested parties have raised concerns that efforts to comply with the requirement will cause eligible citizens to lose access to Medicaid coverage and will be costly for states to implement. GAO was asked to examine how the requirement has affected individuals' access to Medicaid benefits and ...
The US Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act in 2012 allowed states to opt out of the health reform law's Medicaid expansion. Since that ruling, fourteen governors have announced that their states will not expand their Medicaid programs. We used the RAND COMPARE microsimulation to ...
Foreword As our nation's long-term care system matures, there is a growing emphasis on the delivery of long-term services and supports in the home and community-based settings that most people prefer. The dominant delivery vehicle has been the Medicaid waiver program, which currently provides se...
The refusal of 24 states to expand Medicaid under Obamacare will maintain their high levels of inequality in healthcare coverage. The United States is the only industrialized democracy that does not have universal health care coverage, and nearly one in five Americans do not have health insurance...
a new law that will prevent transgender people in Idaho from using publicly funded programs to help cover the cost of gender-affirming care. Thebanincluded in the legislation, which went into effect on July 1, 2024,extendsto state employees on work health insurance and adults...
Many are concerned that growth of state Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) spending, along with limited political clout among beneficiaries, make these programs extremely vulnerable in periods of serious state budget constraints. But observations based on Community Tracking Stu...
Routinely monitoring the trend of burden of disease at the state level is essential given the vital role of states in many aspects of health and social policy19—from the Medicaid program to regulation of private insurers20 and considering that individual states also experience different economic ...
where safe abortion is largely unavailable. Pregnancy discrimination is widespread, forcing nearly 54,000 women in the United States to leave their jobs every year. Millions of children have been excluded from the federal government's Medicaid health insurance program. Thousands of foster children go...
While authorities don’t know what sparked the deadly fires in the Los Angeles area, they do know that embers have helped spread the flames Associated PressJan. 13, 2025 Police Search Michigan Landfill for Missing Woman Authorities are searching a Michigan landfill for any evidence of a Detroit...