3 Ways to Protect Assets From Medicaid Medicaid can pay for long-term care if you meet its means-testing restrictions. The federal-state program is designed to help only people of limited financial me...
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Humana Will Phase Out Employer Group Business To Focus On Medicare And Medicaid Health Plans
The Humana Inc. headquarters office stands in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Friday, July 13, 2012. … [+] Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg © 2012 Bloomberg Finance LP Humana will exit its “empl...
Ryan Found Section 8 More Efficient Than The Low Income Housing Tax Credit
CHICAGO, IL – JUNE 27 : Section 8 voucher holders Tracy Carrithers views an apartment with Housing … [+] Choice Partners real estate specialist Jessie McDaniels (not pictured) in the Logan...
Obamacare special enrollment for people who lose Medicaid
An Obamacare sign is seen outside of the Leading Insurance Agency, which offers plans under the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) on January 28, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty ...
U.S. uninsured rate fell during Covid pandemic, Medicaid, Obamacare coverage grew
The number of people in the U.S. without health insurance declined during the Covid-19 pandemic even as millions of people lost coverage through their employers due to layoffs. The uninsured rate in t...
Healthcare Priorities For The Next Congress
“At long last, Congress will likely turn its attention to things other than COVID-19,” writes Sally … [+] Pipes. “But Democrats have lost their legislative trifecta and will ha...
Millions at risk of losing Medicaid in the spring under $1.7 trillion federal spending bill
Millions of people who enrolled in the Medicaid public health insurance program during the Covid pandemic could lose their coverage in the spring if their state determines they no longer meet the prog...
Even Republicans Are Embracing Medicaid Expansion. That’s A Costly Mistake.
“Expanding Medicaid enrollment will only perpetuate the waste that has taken root in the program and … [+] further strain scarce taxpayer resources,” writes Sally Pipes. getty Republ...
What Is the Medicaid 5-year Lookback Penalty?
Medicaid documents Medicaid is one of the government safety nets that helps seniors pay for their care. Long-term care is a necessity for many seniors as they age and can be very expensive. Medicaid h...
More Mixed Signals On The Housing Economy
Are we heading for trouble, or will the housing economy settle down in 2023? getty I grew up in the 80s, a period of time when inflation and recession were common language. At the end of the 70s infla...
Demonstration Of New Housing Subsidy Might Yield Results
Evaluation of how a new subsidy for housing costs will be key to learning if it will help people … [+] with urgent housing needs. getty Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHH...
Medicaid Expansion Wins In Red State South Dakota
In this photo is the state capitol building in downtown Pierre in central South Dakota, (Photo by: … [+] Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Gett...
How One Governor Boosted Competition In The Health Care Market, But Shunned It With Medicaid Contracting
North Carolina lawmakers recognize the benefits of promoting competition in the health care sector. … [+] Yet the state Department of Health and Human Services has awarded key contracts in an un...
Senate Republicans Would Pay A High Price To Shut Down The Government To Fight Against Covid Relief Or Manchin’s Energy Provisions Or Liberalizing Medicaid Abortions For Poor Women
To avoid a government shutdown at the end of this month, Congress must pass the continuing resolution (CR) which funds the government. It takes 60 Senate votes for cloture on the CR. A united Senate R...
The Ultimate Price Of Government Price Controls
WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 16: U.S. President Joe Biden (C) signs The Inflation Reduction Act with … [+] (L-R) Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), House Ma...
How the U.S. government can keep household debt in check
On Aug. 24, President Biden announced the cancellation of $10,000 in federal student loan debt for most borrowers making less than $125,000 annually. But student loans account for less than 10% of hou...
Less Waste And Better Care
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Medicare bill as Vice President Humphrey and Harry S. Truman … [+] both check the time. Bettmann Archive This Saturday, July 30, marked 57 years since Presi...
Regulatory Attacks On Pharmacy Benefit Managers Will Not Lower Drug Prices
The market for prescription drugs is exceedingly complicated, in part because there are many disparate actors. Besides the pharmaceutical companies that make the drugs and the patients who ultimately ...
South Dakota Voters Reject Effort Aimed At Derailing Medicaid Expansion
In this July 5, 2018 photo, volunteer Allie Christianson of Omaha, sorts late-arriving signed … [+] petitions to be added to petitions in boxes, rear, in Lincoln, Neb. to get a ballot measure to...
You’ll Never Need Long-Term Care, Right? Nope. How To Protect Yourself
Elderly people exercising in the fitness corner of a long-term care facility getty If you ever require long-term health care, will you be ready? When a disastrous malady requires that you be bed-ridde...
‘She has no life insurance, savings or money’: My brother died, leaving his wife with $20,000 in debt. How can I help her?
Dear Quentin, My sister’s husband died last week. They had both lived with us for the previous nine years before moving into an independent living facility. They were there for two and a half months b...