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Medicaid Expansion
Since its inception, Medicaid benefits have been available only to certain categories of people: the disabled, the elderly, pregnant women, and dependent children and their families. Income...
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The Other Issue in Florida
Today’s hearing in Pensacola—city of five flags, America’s first European settlement (sort of), and birthplace of me—concerns not only the familiar arguments over the individual mandate, but also the...
View ArticleAlabama’s Medicaid Forms
I lived in Alabama for a two-year stretch in the Aughts, and I don’t usually accentuate the positive when I think about its state government. So I feel I should acknowledge when it does something...
View ArticleWe Get What We Pay For
Health reform politics can have a bit of a Bizarro World feel to it at times: the ACA saves hundreds of billions of dollars/costs too much; “keep the government out of my Medicare”; and so forth. Aaron...
View ArticleBig MOE
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has given the state of Arizona the go-ahead to pare back its Medicaid program by dropping coverage for 250,000 childless adults, a move which could...
View ArticleMake Medicaid Better
I am by no means equipped to referee Avik Roy’s challenge to the methodology behind the studies Austin Frakt reviewed in his series, Medicaid-IV. Basically the studies compare health outcomes for...
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Dual Eligibles, with Charts
Lester Feder, out from behind the curtain of Politico Pro, commits a blatant act of policy journalism in a piece about what may or may not be wishful thinking by the Administration, which is hoping to...
View ArticleExplaining the Administration’s Brief against Suits to Block Medicaid Cuts
There’s a bit of dissension simmering among Medicaid advocates over the surprising amicus brief (pdf) filed with the Supreme Court a few weeks ago by then-acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal in the...
View ArticleNot All Medicaid Provisions Were Created Equal
I feel like some key points I wanted to make in my last post got lost in . . . well, all those words. So I’ll try again. I do not think it is optimal policy to enforce Medicaid’s Section 30(A) “equal...
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Constitutional Challenges to ACA Medicaid Reforms Would Be a Lot Stronger If...
At oral arguments over the health reform law last week, the Eleventh Circuit panel showed a surprising amount of interest in the other constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—the...
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