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2 weeks ago | 
kff.org | Heather Saunders |Alice Burns |Robin Rudowitz
Chronic conditions (also referred to as chronic disease or illness) have drawn increased attention in recent months, partly due to the focus on chronic conditions under HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again,” (MAHA) initiative. Among working age adults enrolled in Medicaid, approximately three quarters have one or more chronic conditions, and nearly one-third have three or more. Medicaid coverage facilitates access to care for this population.
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2 months ago | 
kff.org | Heather Saunders |Rhiannon Euhus |Alice Burns |Robin Rudowitz
Options under consideration in Congress to significantly reduce Medicaid spending could have major implications for adults who live with mental illness. Nationwide, an estimated 52 million nonelderly adults live with mental illness, and Medicaid covers nearly one in three (29%) of them, or about 15 million adults.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
kff.org | Robin Rudowitz |Alice Burns |Elizabeth Hinton |Jennifer Tolbert
At the start of 2025, many issues are at play that could affect Medicaid coverage, financing, and access to care. Medicaid is the primary program providing comprehensive health and long-term care to one in five low-income Americans. While Medicaid was not discussed much on the campaign trail, there are expectations that big changes will likely be proposed through executive actions by the Trump administration and as part of a tax and spending debate in Congress.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
kff.org | Tricia Neuman |Alice Burns |Robin Rudowitz
On October 8, 2024, Vice President Harris proposed to expand Medicare to provide home care to help families who are struggling with the costs of long-term care. If enacted, this would be the first major expansion of Medicare since the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 that added a prescription drug benefit to the program. Vice President Harris proposes to create a new home care benefit for eligible Medicare beneficiaries.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
kff.org | Maiss Mohamed |Alice Burns |Juliette Cubanski
This brief was updated on October 24, 2024 to incorporate updates to Medicare and Medicaid administrative data. In 2021, 13 million people under age 65 received income from the Social Security disability programs, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which provide monthly income to people who are unable to work on account of a disability.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Alice Burns
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
kff.org | Alice Burns
In March 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its recommendations for how people can protect themselves and their communities from respiratory viruses, including COVID-19. Following the lead of some state governments and other countries, the updated recommendations do not instruct people with COVID-19 to isolate after testing positive, in effect treating COVID more like the flu.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
kff.org | Robin Rudowitz |Jennifer Tolbert |Elizabeth Hinton |Alice Burns
As the start of 2024, many issues are at play that will affect Medicaid coverage, financing, and access. Medicaid is the primary program providing comprehensive health and long-term care coverage to one in five low-income Americans. The unwinding of the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision started on April 1, 2023, and will continue to be the dominant Medicaid policy issue in 2024.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
kff.org | Alice Burns
In September 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new opportunity for states to leverage federal funding on health care: the Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) model. With this model, CMS–under the auspices of the CMS Innovation Center, also known as CMMI–aims to reduce the rate of growth in health care spending, improve people’s health, and reduce disparities in health outcomes.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
kff.org | Robin Rudowitz |Alice Burns |Elizabeth Hinton |Maiss Mohamed
Medicaid is the primary program providing comprehensive coverage of health care and long-term services and supports to more than 90 million low-income people in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected Medicaid spending and enrollment. In 2023, Medicaid programs are facing new challenges and millions of enrollees are at risk of losing coverage as states unwind the continuous enrollment provision that was put in place early in the pandemic to ensure stable coverage.
