Issue: Whether the provisions of the Medicaid Act that require participating states to include in their plans the ability of eligible individuals to obtain services from any “qualified” provider, 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(23), but grant states broad authority to exclude providers for violating state..…
Medicaid money is fungible for entities that perform other services aside from abortions. ... The underlying question to settle is whether states have the right to decide how to best use their Medicaid dollars.. ..…
The uninsured rate was unchanged in states that expanded Medicaid under Affordable Care Act, and it rose by 0.6 percentage points in non-expansion states... Ongoing efforts to alter ACA or to make receipt of Medicaid contingent on work may further erode coverage gains seen under ACA, the..…
Bacon's bottom line Call it Medicaid Effect. Increased state spending on health care for the poor is crowding out spending for other priorities. ..…
Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals by Louisiana and Kansas seeking to end their public funding to healthcare and Planned Parenthood through Medicaid program, with President Donald Trump's Brett Kavanaugh among the justices. ... Louisiana and Kansas announced Republican-backed plans to..…