- Medicaid surge triggers cost concerns for states, By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, May 26, 2014, Associated Press: “From California to Rhode Island, states are confronting new concerns that their Medicaid costs will rise as a result of the federal health care law. That’s likely to revive the debate about how federal decisions can saddle states with unanticipated expenses. Before President Barack Obama’s law expanded Medicaid eligibility, millions of people who were already entitled to its safety-net coverage were not enrolled. Those same people are now signing up in unexpectedly high numbers, partly because of publicity about getting insured under the law. . .”
- Hearings set for Healthy Indiana Plan expansion, By Associated Press Staff, May 25, 2014, Miami Herald: “Two public hearings are scheduled this week on Gov. Mike Pence’s plan to use Medicaid funds to expand the Healthy Indiana Plan to provide insurance under the federal health care overhaul. The Family and Social Services Administration said the hearings will be held Wednesday and Thursday on the state government campus in downtown Indianapolis. Wednesday’s hearing begins at 9 a.m. in Conference Center Room B at the Indiana Government Center South. Thursday’s begins at 1 p.m. in Room 156-B at the Statehouse. The FSSA also announced Friday that it has posted a draft of the proposed Medicaid waiver to pay for the HIP expansion and other related documents on the Healthy Indiana Plan website at http://www.hip.in.gov/ . . .”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty