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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Research on the effects of Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can help increase understanding of how the ACA has impacted coverage; access to care, utilization and health outcomes; and various economic outcomes, including state budgets, the payer mix for hospitals and clinics and the employment and labor market. These findings may also inform ongoing debates surrounding the Medicaid expansion. This brief summarizes findings from 61 studies of the impact of state Medicaid expansions under the ACA.
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The Hill
The percentage of Americans having trouble paying for healthcare or medicine has fallen to a new low, according to a Gallup survey. The survey finds that 15.5 percent of the public said that in the last 12 months they have not had enough money to afford needed healthcare. That is the lowest percentage since Gallup began asking the question in 2008.
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Modern Healthcare
Roughly 375,000 low-income adults are expected to sign up under the state of Louisiana's expansion, which was ordered in January by new Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, who campaigned hard on the Medicaid expansion issue. The previous governor, Republican Bobby Jindal, had blocked expansion. Louisiana is the 31st state — and the first in the Deep South — to extend Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of poverty.
The expansion, fully supported by the federal government through this year, will be partly paid for in future years by fees levied on Louisiana hospitals, estimated at $27 million in the first year and $120 million by year five.
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San Antonio Express-News
University Health System has been awarded nearly $1 million in federal funds to boost the number of Bexar County children enrolling in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
About 10 percent of Bexar County children are uninsured, an improvement from 2009, when the rate of children lacking coverage was 14 percent. But in some San Antonio census tracts, up to 40 percent of children are still uninsured, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Just as new research highlights the economic advantages of expanding Medicaid, medical organizations have entered the fight for expansion, arguing that, for many, it could be a matter of life and death. Chris Hansen, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, recently sent letters to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, House Speaker William J. Howell and Sen. Stephen D. Newman, the president pro tem of his chamber. In the letters, Hansen offers to help identify a way in which Virginia can become the 32nd state in the U.S. to accept federal funds and expand coverage to uninsured Virginians, an effort that has been thwarted by the General Assembly.
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Arkansas Online
Several groups, including Arkansas' largest health insurer, have critiqued components of the state's plan to seek federal approval for a revised version of the private option and a waiver extension through 2021. The Arkansas Department of Human Services received nine written comments prior to Friday's public comment deadline.
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Argus Leader
A race is on to court South Dakota legislators in the "maybe" column on Medicaid expansion. Gov. Dennis Daugaard's office needs to convince 54 legislators — 36 in the House and 18 in the Senate — to back his plan to expand the health insurance program to cover an additional 50,000 needy South Dakotans. It won't be easy.
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The Hill
The Obama administration is pressing GOP leaders to devote more funding to the fight against addiction before Congress sends its major opioids bill to the president’s desk this summer. The head of the White House's drug policy office, Michael Botticelli, joined Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan in a call to action Friday to approve a fully funded opioids bill — an approach that was backed by a majority of senators on the floor this week.
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MHPA
Visit the new event website for details about MHPA's annual conference in September.
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MHPA's Jeff Myers comments on the Advancing Care for Exceptional (ACE) Kids Act of 2015
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