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Topic: Medicaid
CBO: Slower Growth in Exchange and Medicaid Enrollment
The Congressional Budget Office released its new economic outlook yesterday and predicts a slower start to enrollment in the new exchanges: 7 million people in 2014 — down from 9 million last July — and rising by 2016. The CBO report also estimates that 8 million people will enroll in Medicaid in 2014, so about 15 million people will obtain health insurance next year.
Let the Games Begin on Medicare Reform
Just days after President Obama’s full-throated support of defending Medicare from structural reforms in his Inaugural Address, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) yesterday threw down the gauntlet and maintained that reforms are needed in both Medicare and Medicaid in order to reduce the national debt. Hatch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, laid out five proposals that have enjoyed bipartisan support in the past and should be included in deficit reduction talks. They include raising the Medicare eligibility age, changing Medigap coverage, streamlining Medicare cost-sharing under Parts A and B and adding a catastrophic cap, competitive bidding in Medicare, and Medicaid per capita caps.
Obama’s Inaugural Hard Line on Medicare/Medicaid
Inauguration Day in Washington is a blessedly nonpartisan event celebrating our messy yet peaceful democracy with great pomp. But President Obama, with renewed certainty, drew a hard line in his inaugural address against entitlement cuts that could fundamentally change Medicare and Medicaid. And in doing so he doubled down with Republicans in the next rounds of the deficit reduction cagematch.
What Happens to Medicare/Medicaid If There’s a Government Shutdown?
I hate to have to say it, but the “fiscal cliff” debate/debacle last month is going to feel like a speed bump compared to what’s coming here in DC on the debt ceiling next month. At the height of its dysfunction right now, the relationship between the President and the Congress points to a near-inevitable government shutdown in the next 60-90 days. Which raises the question of what happens to Medicare and Medicaid when DC closes its doors. The answer? It depends on how long the shutdown lasts, but it ain’t pretty no matter what. If it goes longer than 30 days, it’s going to hurt, bad.
Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age and Its Implications in the Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
You’d never guess from what you see in the news, but the fiscal cliff negotiations are proceeding on two tracks and there is a deal to be done in the coming weeks. One track is public: the screeds in the media and parliamentary chicanery on the Hill, all with the goal of proving their ideological purity to their respective bases and beating the crap out of the guys across the aisle. Speaker Boehner last Friday: “There isn’t a progress report, because there’s no progress to report.” That piece has been depressing as hell to watch. Didn’t we do this with disastrous results last August? The two parties are like little boys with toys.
A Half-Trillion from Medicare/Medicaid in Fiscal Cliff Deal?
In a recent webinar we predicted that we would see $300-500 Billion in savings from Medicare and Medicaid in a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. The shapes in the fog are becoming clearer and we’ll stand by it: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said this morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he’d like to see around $400 Billion in cuts from Medicare as lawmakers negotiate a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.
Election Gives Health Reform the Kiss of Life
It’s hard to argue this wasn’t a decisive victory for the President and Democrats in the Senate. What remains to be seen is whether intractable Congressional Republicans will come to the table to get stuff done.
