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Leighton Ku
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For decades, the Medicaid program has experienced periodic threats as federal policymakers have proposed to make major budget cuts, create state block grants, split up the program and so on. In addition, every several years, some state officials announce they are about to pull out of the program (though none has ever done so). Medicaid... Read the rest of this entry »
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Leighton Ku
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Editor’s Note: In addition to Dr. Leighton Ku (photo and bio above), the authors of this post include Dr. Peter Shin, an Associate Research Professor and Director of the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, and Brian Bruen, a Lead Research Scientist and Lecturer at... Read the rest of this entry »
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Leighton Ku
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While the most visible national health reform fight at the moment focuses on a public plan option for people covered through health insurance exchanges (or gateways), a quieter debate is brewing over whether coverage for low-income people should be achieved through Medicaid expansions or subsidies to purchase insurance through an exchange. For example, the Senate... Read the rest of this entry »
