Biden administration pleads with states after millions of kids lose Medicaid coverage
Biden administration pleads with states after millions of kids lose Medicaid coverage
According to HHS, nine states are responsible for 60 percent of children’s coverage losses between March and September.
According to HHS, nine states are responsible for 60 percent of children’s coverage losses between March and September.
HHS wants states with the highest rates of children dropped from Medicaid to use certain federal rules that make it easier to get families back on coverage.
In letters sent Monday to the governors of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Dakota and Texas, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra urged the states to take up more of options CMS has offered to ensure coverage. The options include allowing states to use enrollee information they have to auto-renew coverage.
HHS also issued new guidance for states Monday, including an option to give kids an additional 12 months to get on the rolls. That option is available through 2024, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure told reporters.
Becerra also asked the states to remove barriers to Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollment for children no longer eligible for Medicaid, reduce call center times for families and expand their Medicaid programs if they haven’t already.
You’d think the states that endanger a woman’s life to birth a baby, would want to keep those babies alive after they are born but here we are. I’d say I’d love to hear a Pro-Life perspective on this but in reality I actually give zero fucks what the people who got us in this mess think.
How about every citizen gets single payer funded health care like all of the other civilized countries. You can think of the children and the adults all at once. Radical thought
Good old think of the children. See they want you to just think of them and not protect and better their lives. Can’t do that it costs money.
Hard to protect a child from the gays if the kid is dead.
Is it though? A dead kid is less likely to be abused than a live one. If you look at it that way, republicans are just doing their best to solve children's problems 🤢🤮
Thoughts and prayers for the children
This is why I hate Biden. All he does is beg his enemies to be merciful. He won't play for keeps.
I don't hate Biden for this. His hands are completely tied because of federalism and the separation of powers.
What I hate is that his hands are tied because of those things and it's hurting kids. It's a shitty system of government that seems designed to prevent progress. Which I guess I should expect from something written by slavers.