As Democrats Bicker Over Massive Spending Plan, Here’s What’s At Stake For Medicaid
Health experts say this could be the only time a fix to the “Medicaid gap” in Republican controlled states will be possible for many years.
Health experts say this could be the only time a fix to the “Medicaid gap” in Republican controlled states will be possible for many years.
Rural America carried President Donald Trump to his election night upset last November.
For 10 years, Mel Rader, executive director of Upstream Public Health, didn’t have access to health insurance – and he was sick for more than three of those years. His experience convinces him it’s a “moral imperative to provide health insurance for those who cannot afford it.”
The Affordable Care Act transformed the medical system, expanding coverage to millions, injecting billions in tax revenue, changing insurance rules and launching ambitious experiments in quality and efficiency.
Will Medicaid expansion save the country money as people stop using expensive emergency rooms for primary care?
Not in the first years, said a study published Wednesday online in the New England Journal of Medicine.
With 425,000 people, Clark County is the third-largest county in the Portland metro area and has more than 20 percent of the metro area’s 2.1 million residents, but the Columbia River cuts a wide gulf when it comes to healthcare access for the Northwest’s most vulnerable citizens.
This KHN story was produced in collaboration with The Washington Post and is republished with permission from Kaiser Health News.
December 13, 2012 -- The 200,000 Oregonians expected to qualify for Medicaid coverage in 2014 will receive more robust benefits if the Oregon Health Policy Board approves a recommendation from the Medicaid Advisory Committee.
Now many low-income adults lack the dental, rehabilitative and optical care required by the Affordable Care Act, which expands Medicaid coverage to 133% of the poverty line. Those newcomers would receive care in the Oregon Health Plan Plus that’s already offered to children, pregnant women and people with certain disabilities.
November 28, 2012 -- Just as Oregon and other states are weighing whether to expand Medicaid, a step made optional by the Supreme Court’s June 2012 ruling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), findings from a new study detailing Medicaid expansion impacts on states may help inform their choices.