Executive Summary: The Biden administration has encouraged states to use Medicaid funds to alleviate the homelessness crisis with around 20 states directing billions of dollars from their Medicaid program to provide short-term housing for those experiencing homelessness, with some states devoting anywhere from six to fifteen percent of its Medicaid spending to such programs. In … Continue reading
Category Archives: Medicaid
The MOM Model: New Strides and Shortcomings in the Fight Against Maternal Opioid Misuse
Executive Summary: The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center’s recent evaluation report of the first year of implementation of the Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Model has yet to deliver any meaningful data due to low participation. Substance Abuse is now the leading cause of maternal mortality in the United States and models like MOM … Continue reading
Healthy Adult Opportunity: A Conservative Alternative to Medicaid Expansion?
The Trump administration recently released the Healthy Adult Opportunity, or HAO, initiative. This initiative offers states the option to revamp the way Medicaid is funded in their state. Medicaid funding has long been a topic of contention in healthcare. This needs-based public-assistance program that helps to cover the medical costs of specifically vulnerable or low-income … Continue reading
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VBP Has the Chance to Become the MVP
America has a drug problem that goes well beyond opiates and abuse. Pharmaceutical drug prices have skyrocketed in the last decade and fueled an overall increase in health care costs and spending[1]. The top ten most prescribed medications have all risen more than 50% since 2011, with four out of ten having doubled in cost. … Continue reading
Implementing a Value-Based Healthcare System
Overview As the cost of healthcare rises, the government is pouring money into the current health insurance system to find a way to counteract this rise, and lower costs for patients. Progressive Democrats propose expanding upon the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and implementing a single payer system. The key issue with a single payer system … Continue reading
Lock In Drug Abuse
“I looked at that menu, and I just couldn’t control myself!” How many times have you walked into a restaurant planning to order a salad but instead got a whopping 2,000 calorie steak meal? We’ve all faced shortages of self-control, trading in short-term gain for long-term strain. Choosing the inferior food option is only one … Continue reading
Demand Greater than Supply; Medicaid Expansion of Mental Health Services
The Affordable Care Act is attempting to bridge the health disparity gap in mental health services of millions of people who were previously uninsured or whose policies did not include mental health coverage before. However, as millions of Americans now gain health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, the reality of the difficulties … Continue reading
Overmedicated and Unsupervised: The Overmedication of Children in Foster Care
Imagine walking into a doctor’s office and being prescribed one, maybe even more than one, medication for a mental illness you do not believe you have and having no choice on whether or not you will take this drug. The drug has significant negative side effects and the long-term effects of it have not been … Continue reading
Is Medicaid Expansion Something To Be Proud Of?
In the State of The Union, President Obama touted that 9 million Americans had received insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Of these 9 million Americans, 3 million enrolled in private insurance plans and 6 million enrolled in Medicaid. But these numbers and their forecasted impact on health care delivery are misleading. First of … Continue reading
Uncertain Healthcare Exemptions to Broken Promises of the ACA
It has been a week of whirlwind, frustrations, and disappointments for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). To better describe it in the words of Senator Max Baucus (D-MO.), “I just see a huge train wreck coming down.” First of all, there has been speculation that lawmakers and Capitol Hill aids could be exempt from entering … Continue reading
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