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About 1.8 million Floridians were added to Medicaid during the pandemic but the state is one of the few that has not expanded Medicaid coverage. So now about 1 million people are likely to be dropped.
Medicaid has been in the crosshairs of Republicans in Washington before. Republican congressional leaders in 2017 proposed legislation to cut federal expansion funding, a move that would have ...
Medicaid cuts would require an act of Congress, and with the GOP set to hold a trifecta, Trump would be well positioned to reduce Medicaid spending should he pursue it.
If the Affordable Care Act were repealed, the national uninsured rate would rise, a trend that would hit hardest in those states that had more uninsured before the law. Where Your State Stands Between December 2013 and December 2016, the national uninsured rate fell from 17.3 percent to 10.8 percent.
Disability rights advocates Patrisha Wright of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), and Evan Kemp Jr. (of the Disability Rights Center) led an intense lobbying and grassroots campaign that generated more than 40,000 cards and letters. After three years, the Reagan Administration abandoned its attempts to revoke or amend the ...
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a ...
Community organizations serve a pivotal role in the state’s plan to spread the word about the upcoming Dec. 1 launch of Medicaid expansion in North Carolina.