Results 1 to 10 of 280

Endnotes

… 205-230. 23 Thomas DeLeire, Leonard M. Lopoo and Kosali I. Simon, “Medicaid expansions and fertility in the United States” (Demography 48, no. 2, 2011): … 66, 2017): 119-131; Friederike Seifert, "The Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion and interstate migration in border regions of US States" (Review …

Public finances

… greater welfare benefits but that the stringency of rules had no discernible effect on migration patterns.[75] One study evaluates the effect of Medicaid expansion in Massachusetts in 2010. The authors find that Massachusetts’ health insurance subsidies for low-income individuals led to significant population …

Potential factors influencing birth rates

… childless women with similar backgrounds.[14] Expansions of the earned income tax credit also did not … low-income households. Examining the impact of Medicaid expansions in the 1980s, a team of researchers “conclude … there is no robust relationship between Medicaid expansions and fertility.”[23] Researchers often note …

COVID flexibilities that should outlive COVID-19

Here are nine suggestions for improving care and reducing costs

… Best practice telehealth expansion The pandemic demonstrated … relationships. 5. Reserve Medicaid resources for the truly needy Medicaid is the largest line item … In 2020, more than 25% of Medicaid spending went to people who … insurers to deliver much of the Medicaid program, every ineligible …

COVID Ratcheted up Federal Transfers to the State Budget

Federal transfers to Michigan jumped up to $33.0 billion

… Human Services oversees the state’s Medicaid program. The federal government tied … requirement that the state keep people on Medicaid during the pandemic, even if their … state has 637,000 more people on Medicaid than it did when the pandemic began. … the cash at hand to finance this expansion of state government. It has accumulated …

Medicaid Payments Should Go to Caregivers, Not to Unions

U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

… Center strongly opposes the expansion of Medicaid payments to labor organizations … discover the redirection of Medicaid payments to labor organizations, … deduction of union dues from the Medicaid payments of home-based caregivers … system in which payments of Medicaid funds can be directed to …

Telemedicine

… payer insurance market and in Medicaid. This flexibility increases … comes to telemedicine for Medicaid recipients, including those … Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, state policymakers … Health and Human Services gave Medicaid recipients increased freedom … health care through the expansion of telemedicine can help …

Many Emergency Orders To Fight COVID-19 Should Be Put Into Law For Good

… following subjects: Certificate of Need: The law, which prevents the expansion of health care facilities and services, was rolled back to deal with the … most areas of state government, including K-12 schools, universities, Medicaid, Pure Michigan advertising and most departments. The virus changed that, …

Michigan’s Personal Income Tax During Pandemic

… allocations are to prisons, Medicaid and state universities. … them may be eligible for Medicaid. The pandemic may also cause … for people to be covered by Medicaid, and it makes those groups … If the number of people in Medicaid needing treatment for COVID-19 … services given to the Medicaid expansion population, which is …

Michigan’s Personal Income Tax During Pandemic

Pressure on tax revenues and the services the taxes pay for

… allocations are to prisons, Medicaid and state universities. … them may be eligible for Medicaid. The pandemic may also cause … for people to be covered by Medicaid, and it makes those groups … If the number of people in Medicaid needing treatment for COVID-19 … services given to the Medicaid expansion population, which is …