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Authors: Deb Stein and Jennifer LavThe Senate Republican-proposed Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) threatens to undo decades of progress and recent giant leaps forward in the provision of mental health services. BCRA will harm everyone who may ever need mental health services by undermining mental health parity. BCRA will…

So the Senate introduced its “Better Care Reconciliation Act” (BCRA) last week. If you have not yet read through all 145-pages, we have already put out a number of blogs and issue briefs highlighting certain factors. But I want to draw your attention to the interplay of three separate provisions…

Amongst all the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad 142-pages of the so-called “Better Care Reconciliation Act” (BCRA), I will forgive you if you somehow missed the provision about bridges. Take a look at Section 134, the section that allows states to operate part of their Medicaid programs through…

The proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA), pending in the Senate, would, if enacted, forever compromise Medicaid’s 50-year federal-state partnership. By imposing a per capita cap, the federal government would put a strict upper limit on its Medicaid support, leaving states to cover all costs that exceed the cap.…