While many Republican strategists and conservative pundits struggled to make sense of how a Democrat could have been so successful in Pennsylvania’s 18th district on Tuesday, voters sent a clear message: Health care is a priority.
Election night exit polling by Public Policy Polling found that among PA-18 voters who said health care was the most important issue, Democrat Conor Lamb beat Republican Rick Saccone by a margin of 64 to 36. Saccone’s support of the Republican health care ...
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Wisconsin seeks to bring costly, ineffective drug testing to Medicaid
Over the past several months, Wisconsin lawmakers have waged a war on the state’s Medicaid program by requesting federal permission to add time-limits, work rules, and drug tests. But new data obtained by ThinkProgress suggests these drug tests are especially costly and virtually ineffective at enabling care. And if the Trump administration green-lights Wisconsin’s request, taxpayers will have to pay for it.
Requiring people who depend on government benefits to pee in a ...
Trump Administration Delays Decision on Scaling Back Medicaid in Arkansas
Federal officials allow the state’s plan to make work, job training or volunteering a condition for many people to get coverage.
Trump’s Medicaid crackdown comes for Arkansas
On Monday, Arkansas became the third state to make unprecedented changes to its nearly 53-year old Medicaid program, the government-run insurance program for the poor and disabled. The state will now add work requirements and other restrictions as part of a nationwide conservative agenda to cut Medicaid rolls. In Arkansas, enrollment is expected to shrink by thousands.
The Trump administration allowed Arkansas to add an 80-hours-per-month work rule to its Medicaid program. The state...
As Trump Pushes Medicaid Testing, the Grading Falls Short
Evaluations of state experiments “generally lacked rigor,” and the findings were often kept secret for years, so they were of little use, a government report said.
In Washington, Kentucky governor brags about an opioid policy that worries health experts at home
Speaking before 13 other governors on Saturday, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) talked up a state policy that expands access to drug addiction treatment. But the progress he touted will likely be blunted by forthcoming Medicaid changes in the state, which could make it harder for people with substance use disorder to keep health insurance and, thus, get addiction treatment.
“Couple of things we’ve done in Kentucky,” said Bevin at the biannual governors conference in W...
Virginia Senate Republicans just torpedoed the state’s Medicaid expansion
Just four months ago, Virginia’s gubernatorial race saw historic voter turnout — as casting ballots at the time meant extending Medicaid coverage to 400,000 people. On Thursday, voting paid off.
Virginia is currently one of 18 states that has not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) despite a majority of residents’ support. But the state is inching closer to expanding Medicaid insurance: The Republican-controlled House on Thursday overwhelming vote...
As Some Got Free Health Care, Gwen Got Squeezed: An Obamacare Dilemma
President Trump’s efforts to undermine the health law have widened the gap between those who get government aid and those who don’t, deepening resentments.
How Trump’s budget would cut the safety net for the poorest Americans
Trump’s vision for the budget adds to the deficit while cutting domestic programs such as food stamps that benefit people in need
Donald Trump’s budget proposal, unveiled on Monday, revived his calls for big cuts to domestic programs that benefit the poor and middle class, such as food stamps, as well as plans to entirely eliminate several arts and earth sciences funding.
The president, who is looking for large increases in military spending, is also proposing work requirements...
Trump’s budget cuts Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, breaking core campaign promise
When he began his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to “save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cuts.”
This is a promise, however, President Trump would like to break. Trump’s 2018 budget proposal that would cut all three programs, which help the most vulnerable in American society, by billions of dollars.
Fox News’s website tells readers that Medicare is spared “as he promised during the 2016 campaign,” but a cursory...