How can we make #Medicaid Transformation efforts across states equitable? Using insights from our experience with #CalAIM, we present lessons that other states can incorporate.
How to Make Medicaid Transformation Equitable: The Wisdom of Experience healthbegins.org/how-to-make-...
More on protecting disability rights in HR1 Implementation around Medicaid. TY @bazeloncenter.bsky.social for your partnership! www.bazelon.org/wp-content/u...
A New England state is battling the largest HIV outbreak in its history. The local factors that shaped it can shed light on what to expect from Trump’s policies on homelessness and drug use. @kffhealthnews.org
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
As we wait for votes, I'm researching the 9 circles of hell in Dante's Inferno for ways to describe what people will be going through if this bill passes. #handsoffMediciad
Multiple Little Lobbyists families traveled to Washington, D.C., from across the country (Maggie and David traveled all the way from Alaska!) to deliver a simple message to their U.S. Senators:
DO NOT CUT A SINGLE DIME OFF #Medicaid!
Story via @nytimes.com
#ProtectMedicaid
CBO estimates that the House-passed reconciliation bill would cut Medicaid by $793 billion over a decade. Here's what that would mean state by state.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/u.... Not getting enough play. Three very red states need to keep Medicaid expansion in place or need a change to their state constitution.
KFF graphic showing "a Medicaid per capita cap would affect all states, though enrollment declines would vary by state." The graphic includes a map that shows the percent change in enrollment by FY 2034 under per capita cap financing.
The Republican-controlled House passed a budget resolution targeting cuts to #Medicaid of up to $880 billion or more over a decade to help pay for tax cuts.
Our new analysis examines the potential impacts of imposing a cap on federal spending per Medicaid enrollee: on.kff.org/41f9H2m
Urban Institute: reducing the #Medicaid expansion match rate – as some GOP plans have proposed – would create a $44.3B funding shortfall for states in 2026. If states respond by dropping their expansions, up to 10.8 million people would become uninsured. www.urban.org/research/pub...
No, and the reason why is because writing is thinking.
It’s a process of discovery. Sometimes you only find out the exact thing you want to say when you have to actually articulate it. If I already knew what I wanted to say, I wouldn’t need to write!
The fight for Medicaid means we need new allies! Maybe you are all about housing and homelessness. But need to follow and support these awesome folks!#HCA2025
President Donald Trump’s early actions on health care signal his likely intention to wipe away some Biden-era programs to lower drug costs and expand coverage under public insurance programs. What's next is unclear.
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“When we say Health Care for All, we mean ALL” @awright2care.bsky.social at Families USA conference. Solidarity…
Our annual Xmas movie! Love it!
Excellent piece by #NIDA Director Nora Volkow laying out the evidence for syringe services including overdose prevention sites.
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Medicaid Facts: The public overwhelmingly opposes capping federal #Medicaid funding (as under block grants & per capita caps) per KFF polling. 71% oppose (and 86% of Medicaid enrollees oppose). 53% of Republicans/Republican-leaning independents also oppose. #healthpolicy
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Want to know HOW your state is using Medicaid to cover Housing Related Services, the codes, the rates, the delivery systems. We have you covered there too! www.csh.org/hrs-programs/
Want to know what your state is doing around covering housing related supports and services in Medicaid- CSH regularly updates our policy brief on the topic- www.csh.org/resource/pol...
Part of the X Exodus. I post about ending homelessness, Medicaid, harm reduction and bringing together the housing and homelessness sectors to achieve equitable, thriving communities. When not working its travel (Ireland, Italy), literature, film and how to balance life and work.
Thank you! I so miss the Irish literature and travel accounts I followed but had to leave the bad place.
