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The U.S. Congress needs constant reminders that Medicaid is about people. Kathleen Béres Rogers, a South Carolina teacher and mother of Julia, who has Down Syndrome, details the importance Medicaid has played in her life in an essay for the National Health Law Program.Medicaid, she writes, “has enabled us…

As the opioid crisis ravages the nation, children are entering the foster care system in record number. After reaching the lowest point in a decade, the number of children in foster care increased by almost 8 percent between 2012 and 2015. These children enter care with an array of…

If you are like me, you probably were not expecting two senators to come out against BCRA 2.0 last night and scuttle Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) plan to open debate on that bill as early as next week.While certainly a positive development, McConnell immediately pivoted to resurrect…

The opioid crisis is decimating communities across the country. Yet, the Senate Republicans’ Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) would gut treatment and other services for substance use disorder (SUD) by cutting Medicaid funding by 36 percent and eliminating the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) requirement that health plans provide affordable…

Senate Republicans recently released an updated version of their “Better Care Reconciliation Act” (BCRA). As NHeLP’s press statement noted, none of the radical cuts to Medicaid were changed – Medicaid expansion would still end and states would face draconian per capita caps (PCC) that get worse over time. So…