Healthcare Innovation June 17, 2020
Mark Hagland

A team of policy analysts has examined the funding issues facing state Medicaid programs, and concluded that any possible shift of the financial basis of the program towards block grant-based funding would be disastrous

A team of healthcare policy analysts has examined a variety of policy issues surrounding the current moment in the Medicaid program, and come to the conclusion that now is absolutely the moment for policy leaders to firmly support the Medicaid program nationwide, as that program steps up to address the needs of millions of new enrollees, because of the COVID-19 pandemic-fueled economic recession in the United States.

Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D. and Benjamin D. Sommers, M.D., Ph.D., in their Perspective article in The New England...

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Topics: CMS, Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicaid, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Provider, Self-insured, States
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