Medicaid expansion

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A Welcome Extension, For Most

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | December 9, 2013

After months of physicians, hospitals and IT groups calling for more time to complete Meaningful Use, the federal government responded. Although not everyone is pleased. Read More »

America's Forgotten Civil Right - Healthcare

Dan Munro | Forbes | August 28, 2013

Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” It’s often referred to as the Great March on Washington – or just simply the March on Washington... Read More »

Damages From Medicaid Politics Won't Stop At Hospitals

John Commins | HealthLeaders Media | July 3, 2013

Try to imagine the ripple effect of punching a $4 billion hole in the economy of a state whose lawmakers refuse federal Medicaid subsidies. It's not just hospital jobs that will disappear. Ancillary support jobs in healthcare and other businesses will wither, too. Read More »

Health Care Officials: Lack Of Medicaid Expansion Will Put Va. Jobs, Hospitals At Risk

Hank Hayes | TimesNews | August 7, 2013

Southwest Virginia health care jobs and rural hospitals will be at risk unless state lawmakers agree to a Medicaid expansion, Wellmont Health System and Mountain States Health Alliance officials warned a room full of business leaders, insurers and government officials Wednesday. Read More »

How Community Health Centers Support Patient-Centered Care

Sara Heath | Patient Engagement HIT | August 21, 2017

Each year, HHS celebrates Community Health Centers week. It is a time where the agency recognizes the impact community health centers have on patient-centered care and how they promote access to care in vulnerable or medically underserved populations...

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How The Campaigns Cast A Shadow On HIX, Medicaid — And Why They're Now Poised For Forefront

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | November 14, 2012

Amid all of the politicking by both President Barack Obama and former GOP contender Mitt Romney around healthcare during the campaign season and general election, two of the more divisive pieces of the Affordable Care Act – Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchanges – were inhibited as many Governors waited to learn the election’s outcome. Read More »

Meaningful Use May Unintentionally Increase Care Disparities

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | November 6, 2013

I read with great interest this week my colleague Ron Shinkman's thought-provoking commentary about how the 25 states that have refused to expand Medicaid eligibility pursuant to the Affordable Care Act and rejected billions of federal dollars could ultimately degrade the quality of their patients' care. [...] Read More »

Medicaid Expansion, Insurance Exchanges Taxing State Health Agencies

John Moore | Kaiser Permanente | August 29, 2013

Medicaid is set to expand next year, and state IT departments are grappling with pressing deadlines, new eligibility rules and millions of potential applicants as they ready systems to accommodate the changes. Read More »

One Year After SCOTUS, Health Law Is Even More Complex

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | July 1, 2013

It's been a year since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of Affordable Care Act, and by now the law’s critics and opponents can probably rest assured that the individual mandate set no precedent for the federal government to require American citizens to eat broccoli. Read More »

States' Medicaid Expansion Fraught With Political Consequences

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | September 20, 2012

States are facing complex choices about whether to expand Medicaid coverage since it’s their call now and they will not be forced to do so under the health reform law. Read More »

The Obamacare We Deserve

Michael Moore | New York Times | December 31, 2013

TODAY marks the beginning of health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s new insurance exchanges, for which two million Americans have signed up. Now that the individual mandate is officially here, let me begin with an admission: Obamacare is awful. Read More »

Why Not Medicaid For All?

Ross Douthat | New York Times | October 22, 2013

My Sunday column on the potential consequences of Obamacare’s botched rollout ended by sketching a scenario in which the program’s Medicaid expansion is deemed a success while its reform of the individual market leads to much-higher-than-expected costs and much-lower-than-expected participation rates. This combination would no doubt be politically helpful to the Republican Party in the short run, but (I argued) it would actually leave liberals with a fairly clear path forward... Read More »