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I’ll be talking Medicaid tonight with Sara Rosenbaumm 9pm eastern for those who care to join.
Archive for the ‘Medicaid’ Category
July 8th, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act, Medicaid
(A slightly modified version of this post appeared at TCF’s Taking Note section earlier today). I’ll have more to say about the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment (OHIE) in another venue. (Until then, Naomi Freundlich, Jonathan Cohn, Ezra Klein, Gina Kolata, Austin Frakt, and Aaron Carroll have the study well covered. I envy the unique and [...]
July 5th, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act, Medicaid
(Didn’t think so…. This posting got lost in the rush of July 4 activities. I include it now for your reading pleasure. This is cross-posted on TCF.org’s Taking Note blog.) As I prepared to leave on holiday, the New York Times included a story by Robert Pear with the scary headline “U.S. plans stealth survey [...]
June 22nd, 2011
Category: Intellectual disability, Medicaid
During the current fiscal crisis, red states are cutting services to intellectually disabled Americans and their families.
June 17th, 2011
Category: Medicaid
I’m going to cannabalize and tweak something I wrote for the Incidental Economist. I’m not sure this even needs a cite. It was near the bottom of a long post. No one may even know that it’s there. People ask: Is Medicaid better or worse than private insurance in gaining access to needed care? I [...]
June 17th, 2011
I’ve been writing various things on this issue, following up the Illinois audit study I cited the other day. Here is one additional kibitz, cross-posted on TCF’s Taking Note. As two great philosophers have noted, it’s odd to see Republicans touting low Medicaid reimbursement rates as an argument against health reform. These arguments make little [...]
June 15th, 2011
Category: Health and Medicine, Medicaid
Audit studies here in Cook County confirm the obvious: Medical specialists are reluctant to treat kids on public insurance.
May 18th, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act, Medicaid
We can’t address Medicare’s problems through revenue alone. We can, however, largely address Medicaid’s problems that way.
May 9th, 2011
First, they came for Social Security. But lots of people like Social Security, so they couldn’t privatize Social Security. Then, they came for Medicare. But lots of people like Medicare, so they couldn’t privatize Medicare. So now, they are coming for Medicaid. And Steve Benen and Ezra Klein are worried. It’s hardly surprising that Paul [...]
May 6th, 2011
Category: Medicaid
The Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon and I published pieces over at Kaiser Health News presenting on Medicaid and safety-net care. KHN bills this as a debate. It’s more a chance to see our starkly different perspectives. Readers can decide which viewpoint they find more compelling. I would emphasize a few points. These aren’t new points, [...]
