Austin shelter highlights need for local funding
The Other Ones Foundation (TOOF) has successfully expanded its Esperanza community from a tent city to a thriving community ...
The Texas Tribune11h
Health care access and economic insecurity top a list of challenges for Texas children
A San Antonio panel discussed the results of a new survey on the well-being of Texas children Thursday and proposed solutions ...
The Texas Tribune7d
Many new moms in Texas don’t know they qualify for a year of Medicaid, doctors say
When Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 12 into law in May 2023, Texas became the 41st state to extend postpartum Medicaid to ...
verywellhealth14d
The Medicaid Look Back Period Can Delay Nursing Home Coverage
About 1.4 million Americans live in nursing homes, but how do they pay for it? The majority—nearly two-thirds of all nursing home residents—rely on Medicaid to foot the bill. But getting approved for ...
Governing20d
Under Trump, Medicaid Faces a 'Reset Moment'
After enhanced federal funding for Medicaid was ended following the pandemic, 9-year-old Landon Booth of Orlando, Fla., who has leukemia, was kicked off the program. Last fall, South Dakota voters ...
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Arkansas governor wants to revive state’s Medicaid work requirements under Trump administration
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday she wants to impose work requirements on some Medicaid recipients, hoping to revive and expand a restriction that was ...
STAT22d
Shredding the Medicaid safety net
Shachar is an assistant clinical professor of law and faculty director of the Health Law and Policy Clinic at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School. Musumeci is an ...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities22d
Medicaid Work Requirements Could Put 36 Million People at Risk of Losing Health Coverage
Recent proposals from Republican congressional leaders and conservative think tanks would cut Medicaid by taking coverage away from people who don’t meet unnecessary and burdensome work requirements. ...
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GOP-led Congress puts Medicaid on chopping block to reduce federal debt
Under President Joe Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high and the uninsured rate reached a record low. Donald Trump’s return to the White House next week — along with a GOP-controlled Senate ...
Commonwealth Fund23d
What Is Medicaid’s Value?
Medicaid is the public health insurance program for people with low income, including children, some adults, pregnant women, and people with disabilities. It was created in 1965 along with Medicare, ...
Commonwealth Fund23d
Work Requirements for Medicaid Enrollees
For most of its history, Medicaid, the joint state and federal health insurance program for people with low income, has not tied eligibility to employment. This changed during the first Trump ...
CBS News24d
Trump's return puts Medicaid on the chopping block
Under President Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high and the uninsured rate reached a record low. Republicans in Washington say they plan to use funding cuts and regulatory changes to ...