Name one other product where anyone would suggest with a straight face that a decline in sales following a 58% price increase *isn't* due to the prices. kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/aca...

Kennedy, Oz Contend Fraud Crackdown, Not Skyrocketing Prices, Led Millions To Leave Obamacare - KFF Health News

Rising premiums forced many people in Affordable Care Act plans to give up their coverage. But the Trump administration claims a huge drop in enrollment is almost entirely due to its fraud crackdown.

kffhealthnews.org

CMS proposed a rule that would further restrict states' use of Medicaid provider taxes, making it harder for states to fund their Medicaid programs and protect access to care. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

Proposed Medicaid Provider Tax Rule Will Further Cut Federal Medicaid Spending

July 21, 2026: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule on health care-related provider taxes that, if finalized, will increase state budget hardships, restrict

cbpp.org

New Trump Administration Medicaid policies go beyond what the 2025 Republican reconciliation law requires, deepening coverage losses, limiting access to care, and increasing pressure on state budgets. www.cbpp.org/blog/adminis...

Administration Policies Go Beyond 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law, Deepening Its Harm

Recent policies from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the Medicaid work requirement and approaches states use to finance their Medicaid programs, pay their providers, and innovate...

cbpp.org

1/ A court ruling this week allowed the federal Medicaid work requirement to proceed for now. That doesn’t change the fact that the Administration can take steps to prevent some people, including those with serious illnesses, from losing coverage under this harmful policy.

🧵No one should be forced to sleep outside in a nation as wealthy as ours. Yet, one year ago today, Pres. Trump issued an executive order (EO) calling on federal agencies to abandon effective homelessness solutions in favor of punishing people who have nowhere safe to sleep.

New CBO report projects that federal subsidies for employer coverage will be 6X larger than ACA marketplace premium tax credits over 2026-2036. [1/5] www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance, 2026 to 2036

Federal subsidies for health insurance total $33.6 trillion over the 2026–2036 period in CBO and JCT’s projections. Those estimated subsidies grow from 7.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2...

cbo.gov

Note that this is *on top of* previous CMS deferrals of federal #Medicaid $ targeting these two states. Medicaid is the largest source of federal funding for states (63% in CA and 54% in MN) according to NASBO state budget data.

Politico@politico.com · 2w ago

CMS suspends more than $1 billion in Medicaid dollars to Minnesota and California over suspected fraud

CMS just issued a proposed rule implementing some of H.R. 1's #Medicaid provider tax restrictions including those targeting expansion states. These taxes are a vital Medicaid funding source for states. I'll write up a CCF blog once I have had time to go through it: www.cms.gov/newsroom/fac...

Last month, SCOTUS upheld birthright citizenship, but now the Trump Admin. is finding another way to take aim at the U.S.-born children of immigrant parents with its cruel new “public charge” rule.

There Was a White House Playbook for Selling Unpopular Foreign Policy Ideas. Trump Has Thrown It Away.

There Was a White House Playbook for Selling Unpopular Foreign Policy Ideas. Trump Has Thrown It Away.

This book excerpt is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...

talkingpointsmemo.com

The Trump Administration's analysis justifying its #Medicaid work requirement rule is deeply flawed. @gidlukens.bsky.social explains how the analysis ignores evidence showing work requirements cause large coverage losses while failing to increase employment. www.cbpp.org/research/hea... ----

Analysis Justifying Trump Administration’s Medicaid Work Requirement Rule Is Deeply Flawed

The 2025 reconciliation law instituted a harmful policy taking Medicaid coverage away from people not meeting a harsh work requirement, and the Trump Administration recently finalized a rule that...

cbpp.org

The House passed problematic legislation yesterday that could delay or block vital federal assistance to individuals and funding to nonprofit organizations, communities, and states. www.cbpp.org/blog/house-b...

House Bill to Make Blocking Federal Funds Easier Would Take Away Help People Need to Afford Rising Cost of Basics

Ensuring that federal funding reaches eligible recipients, while preventing and addressing factual instances of fraud, is a critical part of good governance that has typically garnered bipartisan...

cbpp.org

The extra red tape required for the medical frailty exemption will greatly increase coverage loss from #Medicaid work requirements. Even before the rule, CBO estimated that 5.3 million people would lose their coverage and become uninsured. tinyurl.com/urbvk466

How sick is sick enough? New Medicaid work rule worries patient advocates, states.

Trump administration wants ill recipients to prove they can’t work every six months. Doctors, advocates and state officials wonder how.

tinyurl.com

Even if you take the ASPE report's lit review at face value — and you shouldn't, it skips critical recent + relevant work — the rosiest 1990s work requirements study in their technical appendix suggests an effect size less than 10% of what the report's "model" projects with @chloeneast.bsky.social:

The Trump Administration’s Dubious Case for Work Requirements

Cherry-picked studies and unrealistic assumptions define a new government report

donmoynihan.substack.com

Yesterday, @DrOzCMS falsely claimed that the ACA marketplace is full of “phantom” enrollees, referencing a number presumably pulled from Paragon paper that repeats the same flawed and thoroughly debunked analysis as its previous iterations. tinyurl.com/5n6cz7da

Setting the Record Straight on Premium Tax Credit Enhancements

Enhancements to premium tax credits (PTCs) cut out-of-pocket premiums by more than half, on average, for over 20 million Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace enrollees, making health care more...

tinyurl.com

The #Medicaid work requirement enacted by last year’s Republican reconciliation law was already bad enough. The Trump administration’s new interim final rule makes a bad policy worse...here's a little more on why: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

Administration’s Last-Minute Restrictions Likely to Worsen Impact of Medicaid Work Requirement

The Trump Administration’s final rule implementing the new Medicaid work requirement makes major, last-minute policy shifts that will likely increase the number of people who are denied or lose health...

cbpp.org

In their release of the #Medicaid work requirements rule, CMS touts an ASPE report as evidence that work requirements increase employment. In fact, the report simply assumes “illustrative” impacts that are “not necessarily what is or will occur in the real world”. tinyurl.com/2czhrtcw

The #Medicaid work requirement enacted by last year’s Republican reconciliation law was already bad enough – taking away coverage from millions who don’t show either that they’re working enough or are exempt. But the Trump administration’s final rule makes a bad policy worse.

We just moved a step closer to a Medicaid work requirement, a major cut made by last year’s Republican reconciliation law that will take away health coverage from millions of people. The Trump administration issued a rule that makes bad policy even worse. www.cms.gov/newsroom/fac...

About 25,000 Medicaid enrollees in Nebraska are at risk of losing coverage as the state moves ahead with work requirements early, despite limited federal guidance and a tight timeline that could worsen administrative barriers and confusion. www.cbpp.org/blog/nebrask...

Nebraska Launching Punitive Medicaid Work Requirements Early, Even as States Lack Information and Time

All eyes are on Nebraska this week as it becomes the first state to implement a policy taking Medicaid coverage away from people not meeting work requirements, well ahead of the January 1 deadline.

cbpp.org

Make no mistake: CBO continues to estimate huge cuts to #Medicaid from OBBBA, last year’s reconciliation bill, despite Trump Admin officials’ false claims otherwise. In fact, CBO projects that 7 million ppl will lose #ACA Medicaid expansion coverage from 2025 to 2032.

Proud wife moment ⬇️ Pre-order yours now!

Chad Levinson@chadlevinson.com · 4mo ago

Until now I wasn’t 100% certain it wasn’t an elaborate practical joke. Pre-order at your favorite bookseller, or here: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Following the expiration of PTC enhancements, #ACA marketplace plan selections dropped by 1.2 million during the 2026 open enrollment period. A new analysis suggests that millions more will drop coverage over the year as enrollees confront higher monthly premiums. www.wakely.com/blog/who-pai...

Who Paid, and Who Stayed? Early 2026 Enrollment Trends in the Individual Market - Wakely

A new report from Wakely Consulting Group, an HMA Company, models changes to the 2026 ACA market enrollment due to the loss of federal subsidies. Findings

wakely.com

Happy #TaxDay! While millions of Americans file their returns today, statehouses across the country are making decisions that will shape who pays, who gains, & who gets left behind for years to come. And right now, states are headed in two VERY different directions. Some context:

Have questions about how new #Medicaid and SNAP work requirements interact, and how states can use shared data and streamlined processes to help keep eligible people enrolled? My @centeronbudget.bsky.social colleagues have answers 👇

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities@centeronbudget.bsky.social · 4mo ago

People with low incomes risk losing health coverage or food assistance under new Medicaid and SNAP work requirements, and states should use shared data and streamlined processes to reduce administrative burden and keep eligible people enrolled. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

The best evidence shows that SNAP's harsh work requirement doesn't increase employment or earnings. It just cuts people off SNAP. Yet Republicans dramatically expanded this ineffective policy in H.R. 1, putting millions more people at risk of losing SNAP.

SNAP work requirements don’t boost jobs, but drop participation, research finds

As states enact stricter work requirements for the federal food stamp program, a new analysis suggests those requirements won’t enhance employment and will push more people off of food assistance. The...

newsfromthestates.com

My new paper details how the Trump Admin is pushing policies that 1) take assistance away while making housing *less* affordable and 2) punish people who become homeless because they can’t afford rent. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...

Trump Policies Would Worsen Homelessness, Attack Basic Freedoms of People Who Can’t Afford Rent

In a nation as wealthy and innovative as ours, no one should be forced to sleep in a park, in a car, or in shelters. But today, millions of people don’t have enough income to cover high housing...

cbpp.org

Last week, I outlined questions I would be looking to have answered when the President’s budget is released. Now that we have the full proposal, we can now answer them. Hint: It fails to offer affordability solutions to make life more affordable while raising the risk of hasty, harmful cuts. 🧵

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities@centeronbudget.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Trump Administration is expected to release a budget proposal for 2027 in late March or early April. @brendanvduke.bsky.social lays out five key questions we will be looking to answer when the budget is released: www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

HHS wasted taxpayer dollars to find that people enrolled were eligible, a new KFF article shows: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Trump’s Hunt for Undocumented Medicaid Enrollees Yields Few Violators - KFF Health News

Federal health officials have ordered states to reverify the immigration status of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees. After seven months, findings from five states show the reviews have unco...

kffhealthnews.org

This week’s 16th anniversary of the #ACA marks an unfortunate turning point for ACA marketplaces: More people are likely to go uninsured because of affordability concerns and many will face higher health costs, as federal policy decisions that increase premiums and red tape take hold.