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Do you want to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from benefit cuts? Then join us in a National Call-In Day to Congress and tell your lawmakers: Protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from benefit cuts. Repeal the “sequester” and close loopholes for Wall Street and the wealthiest 2% of Americans instead.
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Join-Us-Feb.-14-in-National-Call-In-Day-to-Stop-Fiscal-Crisis-Deja-Vu
An uncharacteristic joint effort by House Speaker John Boehner and his usual nemesis, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, to resolve a gnawing problem about how Medicare pays doctors underscores the political victories each sees in finally sweeping the issue off the deck — if they can.
Boehner, R-Ohio, has taken the unusual step of working with Pelosi toward a compromise he can offer Republican lawmakers. This is angering some conservatives with whom he’s repeatedly clashed, including last month when they opposed legislation preventing a Homeland Security Department shutdown and he turned to Pelosi, D-Calif., for votes.via Associated Press.
Further Reading:
‘Doc Fix’ Deal Still Has A Long Way To Go.
This issue brief provides an overview of new Medicaid enrollment data released by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its interpretation to assess the influence of the ACA on Medicaid enrollment.
The Kaiser Family Foundation’s latest issue brief on Medicaid offers new evidence on the fiscal implications for states that have opted out of the Medicaid expansion available under the Affordable Care Act. Opting out, the foundation says, is very costly.
The bottom line: Governors and state legislators who opted out of expansion should be quarantined to keep them from hurting their residents, and their states’ budgets.
5. Meeting growing demand for long term care–While Medicaid is often typecast as helping poor, inner-city families, it’s also the only safety net for millions of middle-class people who need long-term care at home or in nursing homes. More than 60 percent of nursing home residents rely on Medicaid for assistance. With the aging of the population accelerating in the next two decades, the demand for long-term care is expected to soar. While states have made progress shifting enrollees from more costly nursing homes to long-term care services at home and in community settings, more needs to be done.
via Kaiser Health News.
The House Republican budget would destroy the current Medicaid program and slash benefits for low-income individuals. It calls for making major cuts to Medicaid funding and repealing the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These changes would be detrimental to seniors and others who rely on Medicaid.
via NCPSSM.
The Ryan budget would heavily shift costs to states by cutting Medicaid funding. It would cut federal funding for the federal-state Medicaid program by 31 percent by 2023 (relative to what federal Medicaid funding for states would be under current law), and by steadily larger amounts in years after that. These cuts would be in addition to the reductions in federal Medicaid funding for states that would result from the Ryan budget’s call to repeal the health reform law’s Medicaid expansion.
This is a great interactive infographic about who is covered by Medicaid.
Twenty-five states are still refusing to expand Medicaid. At least 16 of them are seeing Medicaid enrollment increase anyways.
The House Republican budget would destroy the current Medicaid program and slash benefits for low-income individuals. It calls for making major cuts to Medicaid funding and repealing the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These changes would be detrimental to seniors and others who rely on Medicaid.
via NCPSSM.