States and Medicaid Expansion

On Medicaid, states won’t take feds’ no for an answer, By Mattie Quinn, October 11, 2016, Governing: “Last month, to the surprise of no one in health policy circles, the federal government denied Arizona and Ohio’s separate requests to adopt strict eligibility requirements for their health insurance programs for the poor.  What did surprise some health policy experts was what the states had asked for: The third year into Medicaid expansion, Republican-led states are still requesting changes that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have repeatedly refused…”