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- December 19, 2016
Protect Medicaid Funding: Enrollment and Continuity, Issue 8 (Updated Feb. 2017)
Read moreMedicaid provides proven, tailored health care coverage for low-income individuals and families. NHeLP's Health Policy Director Leonardo Cuello and Senior Policy Analyst David Machledt explain how Medicaid's "core consumer protections make the program work for enrolled populations, including children, parents, pregnant women, low-income workers, older adults, and people with…
- December 15, 2016
Fact Sheet: Per Capita Caps vs. Block Grants in Medicaid
Read moreWhat is the difference between per capita caps and block grants in Medicaid? Both are tools long championed by conservatives as ways to supposedly improve the Medicaid guarantee. In this new one-page fact sheet, NHeLP explains that the differences are minor, but both would produce similar results -- either tool…
- December 13, 2016
Fact Sheet: What is a Per Capita Cap?
Read moreThe incoming administration and the forthcoming conservative majorities in Congress are advocating changes to Medicaid intended to greatly limit the intent of Medicaid and its scope. One tool being proposed by the politically conservative majorities is something called a "per capita cap." NHeLP, which fights to preserve and bolster…
- August 24, 2016
Health Advocate: Medicaid Expansion Section 1115 Demonstrations Update
Read moreHealth Policy Director Leonardo Cuello provides updates on the states seeking to expand Medicaid pursuant to the Affordable Care Act, and examines the troubling deviations from Medicaid law that some states are pursuing. As Cuello notes in the August "Health Advocate," the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)…
- August 19, 2016
NHeLP Comments: Arkansas Works 1115 Demonstration
Read moreIn comments to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, NHeLP Director of Health Policy Leonardo Cuello urges HHS to reject Arkansas's proposed application for a Section 1115 demonstration waiver. Cuello notes that the "Arkansas Works Program" would, in part, undermine the state's expansion of Medicaid by…
