The Senate health bill ends the Medicaid expansion for adults starting in 2021, leaving 11 million residents across 31 states without health care. The bill allows people with incomes below poverty to buy coverage… Read more.
07.15.2017 /
Eliot Fishman,
Lydia Mitts,
Andrea Callow,
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Insights Blog
A few days ago, we wrote about the Cruz Amendment: “If you create one pool for healthy people and one pool that only covers sick people—those with pre-existing conditions—you are thrusting sick people into a… Read more.
07.14.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
Just as with earlier versions, the latest iteration of the Senate's Affordable Care Act repeal bill would devastate insurance coverage, gut the Medicaid program, and dramatically increase deductibles and out of pocket costs. The… Read more.
07.14.2017 /
Eliot Fishman,
Dee Mahan,
Lydia Mitts,
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Insights Blog
ACA opponents often complain about deductibles in the law’s health insurance marketplaces. But under the Senate health care repeal bill, deductibles would skyrocket for most marketplace enrollees. Our analysis of HHS data shows that,… Read more.
07.12.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
Senator Ted Cruz has been openly touting a proposal to amend the Senate’s health bill by allowing health plans to market cheap, narrow-coverage plans—that is, junk health insurance policies—as long as they also separately… Read more.
07.11.2017 /
Eliot Fishman,
Cheryl Fish-Parcham,
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Insights Blog
While states are balancing their budgets and beginning a new fiscal year on July 1, credit rating agencies are warning that the new health care repeal plan could put a dent in future credit… Read more.
06.29.2017 /
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Insights Blog
By now you’ve heard that the Senate will not be voting this week on the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), their heartless plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), decimate Medicaid, and kick 22 million… Read more.
06.28.2017 /
Jane Sheehan,
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Insights Blog
Congressional proposals to cut and cap Medicaid will put enormous pressure on states to cut services – and will make it nearly impossible for states that now have gaps in their coverage to ever… Read more.
06.27.2017 /
Cheryl Fish-Parcham,
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Insights Blog
The Senate Republicans finally released their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It is now evident why Senate leadership has attempted to withhold details of this bill from the public. This bill would… Read more.
06.23.2017 /
Caitlin Morris,
Dee Mahan,
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Insights Blog
This blog is part of an ongoing series of stories from people across the country who would be negatively affected by the ACA repeal bill currently being negotiated in Congress. If Congress repeals the Affordable Care… Read more.
06.22.2017 /
Insights Blog
If the Senate passes a bill repealing the Affordable Care Act and cutting federal funding for Medicaid, the pain will not be limited only to people who rely on the ACA and Medicaid for… Read more.
06.20.2017 /
Cheryl Fish-Parcham,
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Insights Blog
Leslie and his family live in Oregon. They depend on Medicaid to care for their daughter, Gloria. Gloria receives home-based health care services through a special Medicaid waiver made possible by the Affordable… Read more.
06.19.2017 /
Insights Blog
In early May, Republicans in the House of Representatives rushed through their repeal bill, called the American Health Care Act (AHCA), without taking the usual step of waiting for the CBO report to fully understand the… Read more.
06.15.2017 /
Caitlin Morris,
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Insights Blog
More than $18,000 to spend on Medicaid for each person in Alaska; Nevada gets just over $4,000. Does that sound fair? Well, that’s the funding formula in the GOP health care repeal plan. States… Read more.
06.13.2017 /
Andrea Callow,
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Insights Blog
Senate Republicans are on course to fast-track the bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicaid. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to bring the Republican health care bill to a vote after the July… Read more.
06.10.2017 /
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Insights Blog
As Republicans in Congress continue their quest to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicaid for millions, one of our most important roles as health care advocates and activists is to stay motivated… Read more.
06.09.2017 /
Raven Gomez,
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Insights Blog
