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How the Medicaid work requirement could backfire
The loss of Medicaid coverage could actually make it much harder -- if not impossible -- for millions to find work
Why Medicare and Medicaid Can Outmatch Private Plans on Cost
Good news: The medical system doesn’t seem to discriminate by insurance status. Bad news: The value of care is hard to influence by adjusting prices.
How SNAP and Medicaid Work Requirements Will Hurt Workers
The problem isn’t that people don’t want to work. It’s the volatile and unstable nature of the low-wage labor market.
Why Fully Expanded Medicaid Matters
Are you currently healthy? Are you and your spouse able to work and provide for your family? Are your children healthy enough to focus and learn during the school day? Health is easily taken for gr…
How Medicaid Coverage & Political Participation Go Hand-in-Hand
A new Data for Progress memo is the latest piece of research to suggest that Medicaid expansion has impacts far beyond just health outcomes, this time suggesting expanding Medicaid coverage leads to increased political participation.
What do the new Medicaid work requirements mean for you?
Millions of people could risk losing their health care if they don’t work.
Many Working People Could Lose Health Coverage Due to Medicaid Work Requirements
Medicaid work requirements will almost certainly cause many low-income adults to lose health coverage. Less understood, many working people also will likely lose coverage due to work requirements.
What’s next for Medicaid and Medicare when it comes to dental benefits?
Medicare and Medicaid have made great strides during their 50-year existence, but there is still room for improvement, especially when it comes to dental benefits. Many people still end up in the emergency room for lack of any other access.
Behavioral Science Shows Why Work Requirements Don’t Work
Taking government benefits away from people who don’t meet work requirements ignores a body of scientific evidence that these policies make it harder for people to find and maintain employment, according to a new report.
Why Work Requirements Should Not Be Tied to Housing Assistance
Work requirements weakened federal welfare assistance in the 1990s. Applying the same rules to affordable housing assistance today is a big mistake.
Medicaid Expansion: Myths and Facts
Medicaid expansion would help improve the health of approximately 150,000 low income Iowans who currently cannot afford insurance. However, some have argued ...
When Family-Friendly Policies Backfire
It turns out that generous maternity leave and flexible rules on part-time work can make it harder for women to be promoted — or even hired at all.
Why is Medicaid reimbursement below sustainability?
When Medicare rates are already considered the “bottom line,” why is Medicaid reimbursement below sustainability?
Can Medicaid handle another recession?
Medicaid is still feeling the pain of the Great Recession. The next recession could put a lot of pressure on the program.
Expand Medicaid? Out of the pan, into the fire
Conflating health insurance with health care is a common cognitive mistake. Those with insurance often do not get care, at least not in time.
Who’s Benefiting from Medicaid Expansion?
We have a system that makes it entirely rational to dump tons of money into a health-care program that doesn’t improve health very much.
Why Paying People to Be Vaccinated Could Backfire
Some economists and politicians have proposed offering financial incentives, but that risks sending an unintended message.
How Medicaid Expansion Boosts Financial Well-Being
A new study found that folks who acquired subsidized health insurance through Obamacare were 25 percent less likely to miss paying their rent or mortgage on time.
How religious exemptions will affect Medicaid managed care
It is especially important to assert the religious freedoms of the individual over private, governmentally-funded organization to assert protections of the establishment clause.
