Sara Rosenbaum, Rebecca Morris, Erin Brantley, and Leighton Ku
February 8, 2021
Plug into Reform
Sara Rosenbaum, Rebecca Morris, Erin Brantley, and Leighton Ku
February 8, 2021
By Morgan Birdy and Teodor Handarov
Sixty-three public health scholars, including 10 deans of schools of public health, public policy, and public administration, recently filed two amicus curiae briefs urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to uphold two lower-court decisions blocking Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas and prevent up to 184,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in those states from losing healthcare coverage in the first year of the experiment alone.
By Jessica Sharac, Peter Shin, and Sara Rosenbaum
Between 120,000 and 169,000 adult Medicaid health center patients across seven states could lose coverage for comprehensive and primary health care as a result of § 1115 work requirement programs approved by the current administration.