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November 11, 2018

Iowa Medicaid’s per-member cost increases nearly triple since privatization

The average cost of insuring an Iowan on Medicaid has climbed nearly three times as fast since the state hired private companies to manage the program, when compared to the previous six years, new state figures show. Since fiscal 2017, the first full year of privatization, the per-member cost of Iowa’s Medicaid program has risen an average of […]

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November 7, 2018

Managed Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports is the Answer, But What is the Question?

A Presentation for the Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 2018: Medicaid expenditures (25%) continue to dominate state policy HCBS Waivers Have Grown Dramatically over the past two decades The expansion means that HCBS and Nursing Homes need to be managed States have been trying to shift risk– financial and management to […]

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October 18, 2018

Private Medicaid Plans Receive Billions In Tax Dollars, With Little Oversight

The current political debate over Medicaid has centered on the idea of putting patients to work so they can earn their government benefits. Yet some experts say the country would be better served by asking this question instead: Are insurance companies — which receive hundreds of billions in public money — earning their Medicaid checks? More than […]

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September 14, 2018

The Aging Network and Managed Long-Term Care

Since the early 1980s, service providers and area agencies on aging, that is, the aging network, have developed a number of strengths as they built a community-based long-term-care system in most states. Many area agencies and providers now have the capacity to assess the needs of older persons, identify appropriate services, and administer cost effective […]

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June 20, 2018

Pain & Profit: a 6 part investigation on healthcare in Texas

Part 1: The preventable tragedy of D’ashon Morris Doctors described him as “happy and playful” and told his foster mother he would be healthy by the time he went to kindergarten. That was before a giant health care company made a decision that saved it as much as $500 a day — and cost D’ashon […]

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Dallas Morning News “Pain and Profit” Briefing by The Claude Pepper Center

The June 2018 Dallas Morning News’ investigative series, “Pain and Profit”, published over several days with personal stories as well as a systemic critique of the multi-billion dollar Texas Medicaid

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Climate Change and Aging

Climate change and global warming are concepts with their fair share of political controversy, but there is no denying the fact that over the past several decades, the average temperature of the earth

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