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InsuranceNewsNet.com
Some call it a "Medicaid Buy-In." Others call it a "public option." Proposals to launch this health care program have been launched on the federal level, as well as in a few states.
Lawmakers are proposing legislation to stabilize the Affordable Care Act insurance market, make coverage more affordable for consumers, and improve access to care by leveraging the bargaining power and administrative savings of public programs. These programs vary in their design, depending on policy priorities and the market environment in which they are being implemented.
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Tulsa World
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday said he asked for an audit of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to determine whether the agency is meeting the needs of the state's Medicaid beneficiaries.
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New Jersey 101.5
Large companies whose workers get health coverage through Medicaid rather than through their employer would have to start paying the state an annual "corporate responsibility fee" under Gov. Phil Murphy's budget proposal.
The Murphy administration wouldn't identify the corporations that would be affected, although big employers such as Walmart and Amazon have been identified in past national news reports as having many workers reliant on Medicaid.
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WIBW-TV
A new study by the Kansas Health Institute estimates expanding Medicaid would cost the state more than a billion dollars over the next decade. That number drops to $520.8 million when new revenues and other savings are added in.
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Dodge City Daily Globe
Rep. Jim Kelly clashed Wednesday with a think tank executive as lawmakers launched into discussion of Medicaid expansion for the first time this session.
Kelly, a Republican from Independence, Kansas, said he grew up in a community rocked by the closure of a rural hospital.
He took issue with the assessment by Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, who asserted that advocates of Medicaid expansion don't really want to improve people's health and that there are better ways to stimulate the economy than paying for the health care of low-income residents.
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NPR Illinois
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he's counting on new taxes to help close the state's 3.2 billion dollar budget hole. If all goes according to plan for Pritzker, the tax will not only bring in more money, but also free up state dollars currently spent on Medicaid to be used elsewhere.
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U.S. News & World Report
An Iowa Senate subcommittee has advanced a bill that would require tens of thousands of Medicaid recipients to work to keep their benefits.
Medicaid is a health insurance program for poor or disabled people paid for with federal and state money. Among those covered in Iowa are 172,000 adults living in poverty who were added to the program as part of a health care insurance expansion enabled by the Affordable Care Act.
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North Carolina Health News
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper rolled out his budget for the upcoming fiscal year Wednesday morning, presenting a $25.2 billion plan with one of the central provisions being extension of North Carolina's Medicaid program to cover as many as half a million low-income residents of the state.
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Idaho Press
A hearing has been set for Friday morning on a bill to seek a federal waiver to add work requirements to Medicaid expansion and put other restrictions on the program.
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KBBI-AM
A transgender woman is suing the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services commissioner for denying transition-related healthcare coverage under Medicaid. The lawsuit, which seeks to be class action, was filed in federal court on Monday. The suit argues that prohibiting coverage for gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy is discriminatory and illegal.
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