Medicaid

TL/DR - The U.S. compulsory healthcare spending, which includes government and mandated private spending, accounts for a larger share of national income than any other country. Writer Michael Cannon argues that major health care programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare were primarily established to solve problems created by previous…

TL/DR - Cook Children’s Health Plan has filed two lawsuits against the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to prevent their removal as a Medicaid contractor. The lawsuits aim to halt a $116 billion Medicaid procurement process that would remove Cook Children’s and two other hospital-affiliated children’s health plans from Medicaid STAR and…

TL/DR - A new study suggests that access to health insurance may lower crime rates in the United States. The study examined the largest Medicaid disenrollments in US history in Tennessee in 2005, where approximately 190,000 non-elderly and non-disabled adults lost coverage. The researchers found that losing Medicaid coverage may have societal…

A new HHS proposal would shed light on the cost of prescription drugs and save states and the federal government money in Medicaid. The Biden-Harris Administration has made lowering prescription drug costs in America a key priority — and President Biden continues to deliver results. Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),…