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Apr 25, 2018

Why Medicaid Matters: Adopting a Child With Special Health Care Needs

In a continuing series on the personal impact that recent legislative and administrative proposals to restructure or severely reduce Medicaid health care will have upon vulnerable children and families, this segment focuses on Medicaid for children with special health care needs who are adopted. As described in an earlier blog…

Medicaid

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Why Medicaid Matters: Adopting a Child With Special Health Care Needs
Why Medicaid Matters: Adopting a Child With Special Health Care Needs
Medicaid

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Apr 16, 2018

The Serious Danger of Administrative Attacks Upon Medicaid

While 2017 saw multiple legislative assaults upon the Affordable Care Act, and long-standing health care for highly vulnerable people through the Medicaid Program, these efforts were stopped by Congressional Democrats and a handful of Republicans who crossed party lines. …

Politics

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The Serious Danger of Administrative Attacks Upon Medicaid
The Serious Danger of Administrative Attacks Upon Medicaid
Politics

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Feb 7, 2018

First They Came: The Slippery Slope for Kids

Most of us know the oft-quoted poem, First They Came, written by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller. …

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First They Came: The Slippery Slope for Kids
First They Came: The Slippery Slope for Kids
Politics

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Feb 7, 2018

Why Medicaid Matters: Katie Beckett Waivers for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Beginning in 2017, there has been an unprecedented assault on Medicaid, the health care program for the most vulnerable Americans, including low-income children and families, children and adults with disabilities, pregnant women, children in the foster care system, and senior citizens. As funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…

Politics

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Why Medicaid Matters: Katie Beckett Waivers for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Why Medicaid Matters: Katie Beckett Waivers for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Politics

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Jan 25, 2018

Work Requirements for Medicaid: Bad for Kids

Tying “work requirements” to Medicaid eligibility, a dramatic and ideological departure from Medicaid policy, has now been requested by 11 states (AZ, AR, IN, KS, KY, ME, MS, NH, NC, UT, and WI), approved in Kentucky, and allowed and encouraged by the Trump Administration in a guidance letter to state…

Politics

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Work Requirements for Medicaid: Bad for Kids
Work Requirements for Medicaid: Bad for Kids
Politics

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Morna Murray

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Executive Director at Disability Rights Rhode Island. Twitter: @mornamurray

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