The Heritage Foundation

Medicaid at 55: Understanding the Design, Trends, and Reforms Needed to Improve the Health Care Safety Net

Nina Owcharenko Schaefer is well known as a champion of patient choice and robust competition in America’s health insurance markets. Medicaid is in need of reform. Policymakers should make sure that ...
Washington Times

Medicaid’s poor design shows Congress’ poor planning

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more poorly designed program in the federal budget than Medicaid — the federal health insurance program for the poor. The costs are shared between the states and the ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Benefit Design for Newly Eligible Adults in Medicaid Expansion States

A review of the benefit design choices made by states that expanded Medicaid (as of the end of 2014), revealed that states are offering more generous coverage that what is required under federal law, ...
Health Affairs

The Administration’s Decision On Partial Medicaid Implementation: True To The Law

Ever since the United States Supreme Court decided NFIB v Sebelius in June 2012, all eyes have focused on the question of how the Obama Administration would interpret the Court’s blockbuster ruling on ...
Noozhawk

Veronique de Rugy: Higher Medicaid Expansion Costs Reveal Another Obamacare Design Flaw

Remember when the Obama administration promised that the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid would be awesome? The idea behind this part of the law was that the expansion of the pool of people ...
Insurancenewsnet.com

New Rockefeller Institute Policy Brief Compares Medicaid Buy-In Proposals and Outlines Six Key Design Questions

ALBANY, New York, Oct. 17-- The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government issued the following news release: A new policy brief from the Rockefeller Institute of Government compares and contrasts ...
The Hill

Capping Medicaid threatens our ability to care for poorest, sickest patients

The Senate Republicans, in their healthcare bill, follow the lead of their counterparts in the House, and slash Medicaid spending to enable the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s taxes on high ...
Insurancenewsnet.com

Medicaid innovation models improve care for moms, but design matters: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

2025 OCT 20 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- A new study led by researchers at the Department of Population Medicine - Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, ...
Health Affairs

Medicaid Round Two: The Senate’s Draft “Better Care Reconciliation Act Of 2017”

Although it differs in important details, the draft Medicaid provisions of the Better Care Reconciliation Act — the Senate’s version of Affordable Care Act “repeal and replace” — share the vision of ...
Jezebel

Medicaid Work Requirements Are a Disaster by Design

The Medicaid work requirements that states have implemented since the Trump administration allowed them to are premised on a lie. Advocates claim the requirements are intended to motivate people to ...

Medicaid vs. CHIP: Key Differences in Children’s Healthcare Coverage

Discover how Medicaid and CHIP differ in coverage, eligibility, and benefits for low-income children, helping you navigate these essential healthcare programs effectively.
DrBicuspid

Medicaid-accepting dentists inclined to promote fluoridation

Pediatric dentists who accepted at least one new Medicaid-insured child each month showed greater willingness to advocate for community water fluoridation programs in a recent study. Though these ...