Don’t Expect Medicaid Work Requirements to Make a Big Difference April 3, 2017 Perspective Under the Trump Administration, some Republican governors may look to move their Medicaid programs in a more conservative direction. In his latest column for Axios, Drew Altman discusses the arguments about Medicaid “work requirements” and why few people are likely to be affected by them in practice.
The Other Implication of the CBO Report: Election-Year Pain May 30, 2017 Perspective In this Axios column, Drew Altman lays out how the “political pain” from the American Health Care Act would play out over the next two election cycles if passed in its current form, based on the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the House-passed bill.
No, Medicaid Isn’t Broken May 15, 2017 Perspective With Medicaid about to be a focal point of debate in the Senate, Drew Altman’s Axios column looks at why the idea that the program is broken is more urban legend than fact.
Health Affairs Blog: Can States Substantially Reduce Medicaid Spending Through Delivery System And Financing Reform? September 7, 2017 Perspective In a Health Affairs blog post, Joshua M. Wiener and Melissa Romaire of RTI International and MaryBeth Musumeci of the Kaiser Family Foundation examine whether states could successfully cope with substantial reductions in federal Medicaid funding under a per capita cap or block grant system by improving efficiency in the…
The Ground Has Shifted Under PEPFAR: What Does That Mean for Its Future? November 22, 2024 Perspective In this viewpoint article in the Journal of the International AIDS Society, KFF’s Jennifer Kates and co-authors Brian Honermann and Gregorio Millett of amfAR explore the implications of shifts in the global economic and political environment for the future of PEPFAR, the U.S government’s global HIV program created under President George W. Bush and credited with changing the trajectory of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
