Drew Altman
President and CEO at Kaiser Family Foundation
Executive Publisher at KFF Health News
President and CEO of @KFF
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6 days ago |
kff.org | Drew Altman
Some Republicans who want to reduce federal funding for Medicaid have characterized the Medicaid expansion as unjust because the federal government provides a 90% match to states for uninsured adults they characterize as “able bodied,” while it provides a smaller match for younger, older and disabled beneficiaries they characterize as Medicaid’s traditional and more needy populations. The 90% match takes money from the “traditional” populations, they say.
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1 week ago |
kff.org | Drew Altman
Levels of trust in the nation’s scientific agencies that affect people’s everyday lives—the CDC and the FDA—are abysmally low, driven in part by polarization and partisanship. It’s a danger to the nation if another epidemic hits and the country needs public health leadership or a new drug or vaccine to get through it.
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1 month ago |
kff.org | Drew Altman
With the focus on Medicaid cuts, the dismantling of the Department of Health and Human Services and so much more that has been part of the “flood the zone” tactics of the Trump administration, one big health policy issue—the looming expiration of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits—has not received the attention it deserves. That may be changing soon.
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1 month ago |
kff.org | Drew Altman
Having reorganized both nonprofit and public sector organizations, these are a few reflections on Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). I know the department pretty well and worked there early in my career. First, HHS is no stranger to reorganization. HHS itself was born from a reorganization when education was split off from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and became a separate cabinet agency.
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1 month ago |
kff.org | Drew Altman
Whether you are for the Medicaid cuts under discussion or against them, don’t expect many states to replace significant cuts in federal Medicaid funding. If any state does, it may lead to cuts in other state programs outside of health care such as corrections, environmental protection, social services, transportation, education or higher education, or possibly force some states to raise taxes.
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3 in 4 non-elderly adults on Medicaid have one or more chronic condition. R’s in Congress plan to cut Medicaid. RFKjr wants to tackle chronic illness. Maybe they should talk? https://t.co/qTWLqu2DK1
Medicaid has always been a counter cyclical program. It’s there for MORE people when the economy turns south. And often congress comes up with MORE money to help states through the rough patches. That’s the plan now, right?
There may be lots of significant changes hidden in the HHS reorg weeds. Is the AHRQ mission disappearing? Is prevention at CDC going away? What's crystal clear: big staffing cuts. What's a question: how it makes America healthier (again)?