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January 15, 2025
Why Medicaid is Important: EPSDT and Services for Children and Youth with Disabilities
Shandra Hartly Fact Sheet
Medicaid services are vitally important for children and youth with disabilities. Through benefits like the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) and Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waivers, children and youth with disabilities can access an array of services not traditionally available through private insurance. This broad…
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January 15, 2025
Highlights: What Makes Medicaid, Medicaid?
Mara Youdelman, Wayne Turner, David Machledt, Kimberly Lewis, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, and Elizabeth Edwards Fact Sheet
Congressional Republicans are considering policies that would cut funding for Medicaid through their forthcoming budget resolution. Emerging proposals could include Medicaid work requirements, per capita caps, limiting the federal share of payments and other options to severely reduce funding. All of the proposals would make it harder for people…
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January 8, 2025
National Coalition for Gender Justice in Health Policy Calls on Congress to Protect Medicaid
Madeline Morcelle Letter
On January 8, 2025, 134 members of the National Coalition for Gender Justice in Health Policy and allied organizations called on Congress to protect Medicaid from any cuts, such as per capita caps, block grants, work requirements, Medicaid expansion elimination or disincentives, FMAP or benefit cuts, or provider tax…
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January 7, 2025
Top 10 Reasons Why Work Requirements Should Not Be Added to Medicaid
Mara Youdelman, David Machledt, and Emma Parker-Newton Issue Brief
Work requirements in Medicaid risk creating unnecessary administrative burdens and increasing costs for states without achieving their intended goals. Evidence shows that these requirements often result in coverage loss for hardworking Americans, such as care givers, rural residents, people with disabilities, and older adults, who face barriers to meeting…
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January 6, 2025
Who is Harmed by Medicaid Work Requirements?
Mara Youdelman Issue Brief
As we expect both legislative and administrative efforts to add work requirements to Medicaid, millions of individuals could lose health coverage. The lived experiences of those who were subject to work requirements during the first Trump administration document a severe impact on individuals with disabilities and chronic conditions as…
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January 6, 2025
Case Explainer: Medina v. Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic— Certiorari Granted
Jane Perkins Court Document, Cases, Case Explainer
On December 18, 2024, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case presenting the question: does the Medicaid free choice of provider provision, 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(23)(A), unambiguously confers a right upon beneficiaries to choose a specific provider? After giving some background on enforcement of the Medicaid Act, this…
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Why Medicaid is Important: EPSDT and Services for Children and Youth with Disabilities

Highlights: What Makes Medicaid, Medicaid?

National Coalition for Gender Justice in Health Policy Calls on Congress to Protect Medicaid

Top 10 Reasons Why Work Requirements Should Not Be Added to Medicaid

Who is Harmed by Medicaid Work Requirements?

Case Explainer: Medina v. Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic— Certiorari Granted