Today, the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) released a new report that highlights troubling disparities between low-income women with and without health insurance and the urgent need to expand coverage in the 25 states that have yet to accept increased federal Medicaid funding....
It is not obvious that this strategy has paid political dividends for Republicans, but it has clearly come at a cost for the country, most notably for the estimated 4 million Americans left uninsured because they live in GOP-led states that have yet to expand Medicaid.65 The second lesson ...
$150 billion to expand Medicaid in-home health care, and $150 billion to build more than 1 million new affordable rental and single-family homes. The package was to be paid for by tax increases for corporations and the wealthiest Americans; however, the Congressional Budget Office estimated th...
In States' Hands: How the Decision to Expand Medicaid Will Affect the Most Financially Vulnerable Americans In those states that have not yet decided to expand, as many as two of five (42%) adults who were uninsured for any time over the two years ... MM Doty - 《Issue Brief》 被引...
Moreover, children of the working poor were almost twice as likely as children of the poor nonemployed to be without coverage. The implications of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (OBRA) which restricted the working poor's eligibility for Medicaid are discussed. It is argued that ...
Objective To examine the availability of outpatient SUD treatment facilities that accept Medicaid across US counties and whether counties with a higher percentage of racial/ethnic minorities are more likely to have gaps in this infrastructure. Design, Setting, and Participants We used data from the 20...
Taxes obviously are not the only reason why people move from one state to another, but there’s a long-standing pattern of people moving to places that have lower fiscal burdens. And, thanks to tax competition, this process will probably get even stronger. Here are some excerpts from an ed...
However 21 states representing 6.3 newly eligible people have confirmed that they will NOT expand Medicaid eligibility and 5 more, representing 1.8 million more, have not yet made a decision, despite the fact that the federal government will pay 100% of the cost the first 3 years, and 90% ...
26 Migration of healthier individuals into the District of Columbia and states or migration of sicker individuals out of these locations may have also contributed to changes in CVD burden. An intriguing finding of our study was that socioeconomic status did not fully explain a population’s level...
Some examples include: standardizing the age for alcohol consumption, getting states to expand healthcare through the Affordable Care Act, expanding Medicaid after the 2008 financial crisis, and many others. Regardless of how Congress uses its fiscal resources to influence state actions or how the ...