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The Washington Post
The Trump administration will make it much more difficult for immigrants to come to the United States or remain in the country if they use or are likely to use housing vouchers, food subsidies and other "non-cash" forms of public assistance, under a new proposal announced Saturday by the Department of Homeland Security.
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Governing
A series of recent court rulings and settlements, including one last week in Indiana, have found that states cannot withhold potentially life-saving but expensive medications from Medicaid beneficiaries and prison inmates who have chronic hepatitis C.
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The Hill
More drug companies raised their prices in the past year than cut them, according to an analysis by The Associated Press published on Monday. The review, which used data provided by health information analytics firm Elsevier, found that there have been fewer price increases compared to past years, and that price hikes have been lower than in previous years.
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Modern Healthcare
Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams, whose family was uninsured when she was growing up, says she's running to "expand Medicaid and keep hospital doors open." Accepting the Affordable Care Act expansion would bring in $3 billion in federal funding a year and cover nearly 500,000 Georgians. She's one of several Democratic gubernatorial candidates making a similar pitch in states that have not extended Medicaid to low-income adults as allowed by the ACA. Others are Andrew Gillum in Florida, Laura Kelly in Kansas and Janet Mills in Maine. All are locked in tight races against Republicans who strongly oppose expansion.
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The New York Times
The Trump administration argues that imposing work requirements for Medicaid is an incentive that can help lift people out of poverty. But a test program in Arkansas shows how hard it is merely to inform people about new incentives, let alone get them to act. In the first month that it was possible for people to lose coverage for failing to comply, more than 4,300 people were kicked out of the program for the rest of the year. Thousands more are on track to lose health benefits in the coming months. You lose coverage if you fail to report three times, and the program, in effect for three months, is slowly phasing in more people.
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The Hill
The Trump administration will review Alabama's proposal to require some Medicaid beneficiaries, including parents of young children, work to continue receiving benefits. The proposal would require beneficiaries work or complete other activities for 35 hours a week. Parents of children younger than six would have to work 20 hours a week.
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The Washington Post
Virginia is gearing up to expand Medicaid eligibility to as many as 400,000 residents in January, but requirements that recipients work and pay premiums could lag two years behind, officials said this week. The gap has infuriated Republican state senators who opposed the expansion effort and viewed work requirements as making it slightly less objectionable.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Maine courts have agreed to hear the latest arguments about the state's failure to enact voter-approved Medicaid expansion. Medicaid expansion has been held up for months because of the Republican governor's opposition over funding issues and resulting legal battles. A judge charged with addressing looming constitutional issues impacting Medicaid expansion has scheduled hearings for Sept. 27-28 in Portland.
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CQ (Subscription required)
Lawmakers are on the verge of wringing another $7.7 billion in budgetary savings out of the Children's Health Insurance Program to finance the discretionary portion of the Department of Health and Human Services' fiscal 2019 budget, among other expenses in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations conference report (HR 6157). That would bring the CHIP offsets tally to $58.3 billion since the GOP House takeover after the 2010 midterms, according to a CQ review of Labor-HHS-Education spending laws over the past nine years.
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The Columbus Dispatch
It is a heartbreaking growth industry, especially in Ohio: helping babies born dependent on drugs to get through the hell of withdrawal. As the cost of such care has skyrocketed along with opioid abuse, a better approach is emerging. But if it is to reach its potential, state and national leaders need to clear away a bureaucratic obstacle.
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USA Today
The U.S. maternal death rate is among the highest in the developed world. Eighteen states haven't studied these deaths, and others tend to blame mothers.
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MHPA via YouTube
Watch this short recap of MHPA17 to get a feel of the excitement, energy, and content of MHPA's annual conference.
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