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Federal Cuts to Medicaid Could End Medicaid Expansion and Affect Hospitals in Nearly Every State
In states that choose to end expanded Medicaid eligibility, fewer covered beneficiaries mean hospitals will see less ...
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Medicaid Cuts Could Increase Maternal Mortality and Jeopardize Women’s Health
Twenty-four million women rely on Medicaid for everything from maternal health and contraception to vaccinations and cancer screenings. Using data from the Commonwealth Fund’s 2024 State Scorecard on ...
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Medicare Drug Price Negotiations: All You Need to Know
Under the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, the HHS secretary negotiates directly with manufacturers on the prices ...
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More Than 100,000 Michigan Residents Nearly Lost Medicaid Coverage Under Work Requirements
In a sense, that was pretty good. In 2019, a Manatt Health analysis of Michigan data predicted a coverage loss as high as 183 ...
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Proposed Rule Will Make Consumers Pay More for Health Insurance and Care in the ACA Marketplaces
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplaces are providing affordable health insurance plans to a record 24 million Americans in a price-competitive market. Working-class people have enjoyed lower ...
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How Private Equity Deals Are Reshaping Your Health Care
When private equity firms buy your local hospital, your primary care doctor’s office, or your local nursing home, they profit. But what happens to those health care institutions, the patients they ...
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How National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Lead to Large-Scale Job Losses, Harm State Economies, and Strain Budgets
The Republican-led Congress has passed a “concurrent budget resolution” under which leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate have agreed to identify at least $1.5 trillion in savings as ...
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Charting a Path Through a Troubled Legacy
As the American Medical Association’s first chief equity officer, Dr. Aletha Maybank guided the legacy medical institution through a difficult reckoning with its past exclusion of Black and women ...
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Integrating Medicare and Medicaid: Policy Priorities to Improve Access and Care for Beneficiaries Under Age 65
These integration efforts, however, typically do not recognize the heterogeneity of the 3.6 million dual-eligible individuals under age 65, who represent over one-third (36%) of the dual-eligible ...
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Community Health Centers Provide Care to Millions, but Cuts Could Put Them in Jeopardy
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Community health centers (CHCs) ...