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1 month ago |
urban.org | Lisa Dubay |Claire O'Brien |John Holahan
Majority leadership in the House of Representatives has proposed implementing substantial federal funding cuts that would affect the Medicaid program over the next 10 years. This paper is one in a series that assesses the potential impacts of different policies being considered for Medicaid.
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1 month ago |
urban.org | John Holahan |Claire O'Brien |Lisa Dubay
In this paper, we make estimates of a policy that would impose per capita caps on the Medicaid expansion population created by the Affordable Care Act. Per capita caps limit the growth in federal spending on a per-enrollee basis. This paper builds upon previous work that imposed per capita caps on the entire Medicaid program. In response to concerns about the dramatic impact of that policy, per capita caps on the expansion population would represent a more narrow targeted policy.
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2 months ago |
urban.org | Katie Fallon |Hannah Martin |Grace Koch |Laura Tomasko
Entering 2025, nonprofit leaders were most concerned about the intersecting challenges of financial instability owing to uncertain revenues and rising expenses, increasing program demand, and supporting their workforces amid these changes. This brief analyzes an open-ended survey response from late 2024 which asked nonprofit leaders about their primary concerns for their organizations in 2025.
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2 months ago |
urban.org | Susan J. Popkin |Nina Russell |Barbara A. Butrica |Dana Ferrante
This week, the Trump administration began a large-scale reorganization of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including laying off staff at the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Food and Drug Administration. Among the hardest hit was the Administration for Community Living (ACL).
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Mar 5, 2025 |
urban.org | Poonam Gupta |Elaine Waxman |Kassandra Martinchek |Aleszu Bajak
The Thrifty Food Plan, which is used to determine SNAP benefits, hadn’t been updated since 2006. In 2018, however, Congress approved a bipartisan provision to reevaluate the plan by 2022 and every five years thereafter. The resulting reevaluation, issued in 2021, ensured that SNAP benefit amounts reflected current dietary guidelines, costs of buying and preparing food, and household consumption patterns.
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