Senate Republicans on Thursday revealed the Better Care Reconciliation Act, their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The bill asks low- and middle-income Americans to spend significantly more for less coverage. The bill would roll back the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of the Medicaid program, which currently covers millions of low-income Americans, […]
Commentary: House Health Bill Would End ACA’s Medicaid Expansion, Leaving Most Enrollees Uninsured
Two new CBPP analyses confirm that the House health bill (the American Health Care Act) would effectively end the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) expansion of Medicaid and likely cause the overwhelming majority of those currently covered by the expansion to become uninsured. The first analysis shows that states almost certainly could not afford to continue […]
The American Health Care Act would leave many older Floridians without health care.
The American Health Care Act (AHCA) would make it harder for older adults in Floridians to afford the health care they need. Under the AHCA: Older Floridians may lose access to nursing home care, home health care, and other services that help them maintain their independence. Proposed cuts to Medicaid would slash federal funding by […]
As Costs Mount, States Warily Eye Changes to Medicaid in GOP Health Plan
Medicaid, the program providing health care to 72 million low-income and disabled people, consumed 29 percent of all state general fund dollars in 2016. That constituted the second largest share of the pie behind elementary, secondary and higher education. A new survey by the National Association of State Budget Officers issued Thursday found that while Medicaid spending […]
Five-star ratings for sub-par service: Evidence of inflation in nursing home ratings
Nearly two million Americans spend an average of 835 days of their lives in one of the 15,700 nursing home facilities in the United States (National Center for Health Statistics 2009). The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that in 2009, 4.1 percent of Americans over 65 years old lived in these facilities. This […]
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