Category: The Commonwealth Fund

Kansas has not yet expanded its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act, but could choose to do so in the future. If Kansas expanded the program, an estimated 152,000 adults could gain insurance coverage. Newly covered adults would likely experi…

Members of a federal advisory panel expressed alarm this week that 4,350 low-income people in Arkansas had lost Medicaid coverage because they failed to show they were complying with new work requirements held up by the Trump administration as a model …

“We’re very concerned that some plans in the ACA market may drop out because this will draw low-risk people out of the marketplace and increase unfair competition from plans that aren’t subject to the same rules.” — Margaret Murray, CEO of the Associa…

Nebraska’s highest court dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that would have stripped a Medicaid expansion proposal off the November ballot, clearing the way for voters to decide a measure that has been repeatedly rejected by the Republican-dominated legisla…

Seven health care industry and advocacy groups sued the Trump administration Friday to block a new rule expanding the availability of short-term health plans that don’t comply with ACA consumer protection rules for the individual market. The Associatio…

Michigan is asking the Trump administration to approve work requirements for thousands of low-income adults who gained health care under Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. Under the proposal, beneficiaries between the ages of 19 to 62 will have to work, v…

Maryland’s attorney general on Thursday filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration for recurring efforts he says are intended to dismantle the national health care law and prevent people from obtaining coverage. The lawsuit filed i…