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Despite recent improvement, 13 million children lived in a family with problems paying medical bills in 2017
Between 2013 and 2017, the share of children whose families had problems paying medical bills declined by 20 percent, but one in six children still lived in a family with problems paying medical bills in 2017.
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The implications of New Jersey’s minimum-wage hike for Medicaid eligibility
New Jersey has enacted an incremental minimum-wage increase from $8.85 in 2019 to $15 by 2024. Relative to the number of workers likely to experience a wage increase, the number of workers who could lose Medicaid coverage under a $15 minimum wage is likely to be small.
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Are Medicare Advantage plans using new flexibility to address enrollees’ health-related social needs?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has increased flexibility for Medicare Advantage plans to cover new benefits to address enrollees’ health-related social needs or long-term care needs, but plans are proceeding cautiously.
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Child care challenges for Medicaid work requirements
As states propose and enact Medicaid work requirements, some enrolled parents may need child care to comply. Affordable, good-quality, accessible, and available child care can be difficult to find, forcing some parents to leave children in suboptimal care or risk losing Medicaid.
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Exploring state variation in coverage gains: 2013–17
This brief groups states according to their pre–Affordable Care Act (ACA) uninsurance levels, Medicaid expansion status, and efforts to encourage marketplace enrollment. States with high uninsurance in 2013 that expanded Medicaid eligibility under the ACA saw the largest coverage gains between 2013 and 2017.
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Birth control at a glance
These fact sheets describe women’s frequency of birth control use, current birth control methods, barriers to birth control, factors important to method choice, and women’s perceptions of birth control. They cover birth control use among low-income women, young women, Black women, and Hispanic women.
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Lessons from a community health center’s approach to the social determinants of health
The story of Mary’s Center, a DC-area community health center marking its 30th anniversary, provides a framework for understanding the outsize benefits of providing a combination of integrated care and educational and social services in underresourced communities.
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