Leighton Ku

Mar 21, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Leighton Ku |Sara Rosenbaum

In its February 2024 cost estimate for Senators Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) and Roger Marshall’s (R-KS) Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act (S.2840)—which proposes to bolster primary care services in the US, including through higher funding for community health centers—the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that additional mandatory spending for community health centers would create savings by lowering federal Medicaid and Medicare expenditures.

Dec 1, 2023 | healthaffairs.org | Leighton Ku |MaryBeth Musumeci |Sara Rosenbaum

The process of unwinding Medicaid’s continuous enrollment guarantee, a special emergency public health protection for vulnerable Americans enacted early in the COVID-19 pandemic, is now in its eighth month. Between April and November 2023, more than 11 million Medicaid beneficiaries have been disenrolled; millions more will lose coverage in the coming months.