by Jordana Choucair | May 26, 2022 | Access & Coverage
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a law outlawing almost all abortions immediately, making it the first state in the country to end access to the procedure. The law, inspired by a six-week ban in Texas, states that anyone who “aids or abets” the provision of an...
by Jordana Choucair | May 24, 2022 | Access & Coverage
North Carolina Senate Republicans are strongly considering legislation that would expand Medicaid coverage to approximately 600,000 additional low-income adults. According to a summary of the draft bill obtained by The Associated Press, the legislation would include a...
by Jordana Choucair | May 20, 2022 | Access & Coverage
Democrat lawmakers are hoping to strike a deal with Senator Manchin to renew enhanced health coverage subsidies — passed last March as part of Biden’s American Rescue Plan — as part of a reconciliation package. Maintaining the subsidies, which is projected to cost...
by Jordana Choucair | May 17, 2022 | Access & Coverage
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a brief projecting that lowering Medicare coverage to Americans over 60 would add about 7.3 million people to the program and cost $155 billion over a five-year period. Lowering the eligibility age would result in about...
by Jordana Choucair | May 10, 2022 | Access & Coverage
A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found that between 5.3 million and 14.2 million people could lose their health coverage when temporary pandemic-inspired reforms to Medicaid expire at the end of the public health emergency. The biggest losses are expected to be...
by Jordana Choucair | May 9, 2022 | Access & Coverage
S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra announced that Tennessee and South Carolina are extending health care coverage to women with low-to-modest incomes for a full year after childbirth. Five other states – Louisiana, Illinois, Michigan,...
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