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Medicaid expansion

The Scoop: September 13, 2019 Edition photo

The Scoop: September 13, 2019 Edition

September 13, 2019 – In this edition of The Scoop: Oklahoma, Missouri Medicaid expansion advocates gather signatures for the 2020 ballot; BridgeSpan rejoins…

The Scoop: September 6, 2019 Edition photo

The Scoop: September 6, 2019 Edition

September 6, 2019 – In this week's edition of The Scoop: Five exchanges extend open enrollment; Idaho’s 'coverage choice' Medicaid expansion proposal has…

The Scoop: August 2, 2019 Edition photo

The Scoop: August 2, 2019 Edition

August 2, 2019 – In this edition of The Scoop: North Dakota and Colorado state reinsurance programs receive federal approval; CMS rejects Utah's request for…

What’s YOUR state doing to save the ACA? photo

What’s YOUR state doing to save the ACA?

June 7, 2019 – Fourteen states have either locked in – or made progress toward – at least ten provisions that will help preserve the Affordable Care…

Not even the slightest pretense: photo

Not even the slightest pretense:

March 26, 2019 – Since last night, my Twitter feed has been blowing up with people freaking out over the latest attack on justice, the rule of law and…

Clawing back coverage from the poor photo

Clawing back coverage from the poor

July 5, 2017 – What argument could possibly convince critics of the Medicaid expansion that taking back health coverage from someone who earns $46 dollars…

The poor get poorer under GOP’s tax credit scheme photo

The poor get poorer under GOP’s tax credit scheme

March 10, 2017 – The AHCA would result in higher premiums for older people, smaller tax credits for poorer and older people, reduced access to Medicaid for…

‘Obamacare saved my life’ photo

‘Obamacare saved my life’

January 5, 2017 – While policy wonks analyze the political challenges of repealing Obamacare, millions of Americans who rely on it to help pay for lifesaving…

Repealing the ACA would be the only true disaster photo

Repealing the ACA would be the only true disaster

December 16, 2016 – In sharing these stories, we hope that our policy makers will understand that the only true disaster is the one that awaits us if the ACA…

Resistance to repeal will not be futile. photo

Resistance to repeal will not be futile.

December 12, 2016 – For now, the political challenge brings a bracing clarity: to implacably resist the rollback of ACA. One must defend millions of people who…

Burying great Obamacare headlines photo

Burying great Obamacare headlines

September 14, 2016 – Too bad the news that 700,000 people got health insurance happened to hit on a day where a more important economic story broke: "Wrigley…

A healthcare plan that even Bernie could love? photo

A healthcare plan that even Bernie could love?

July 11, 2016 – "[Hillary Clinton's healthcare proposal] is about as close to what I could realistically hope would come out of the Hillary/Bernie primary:…