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This has not received enough attention but a Commerce Dept order from June threatens the availability of Census data including the American Community Survey. So it may become a lot harder to understand health coverage trends. My colleague Aubrianna Osorio explains: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/07/30/c...

My CCF colleague Andy Schneider on the latest developments in CMS' ongoing efforts to withhold federal #Medicaid funding from California and Minnesota: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/07/29/w...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Medicare and Medicaid! 61 years ago President Johnson signed the Medicare/Medicaid legislation in Independence, MO, the hometown of President Harry Truman. For decades Medicare and Medicaid has provided crucial access to affordable coverage to those needing it.

New: Judge denied request from blue state AGs for a preliminary injunction to hold up parts of the Medicaid work requirement, but put the case on an expedited schedule and made clear that his ruling doesn’t pertain to the merits of the case Ruling here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

More and more uninsured patients are seeking care in emergency rooms and clinics, having lost their coverage under the Affordable Care Act after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies. Many are unable to pay hospital bills.

“The Trump administration has effectively shut down most of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s activities, closing the spigot on federal funding estimated to have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars over the past 27 years by improving medical practice.”

Trump’s changes to SNAP and Medicaid, including new eligibility and work requirements, are poised to cost states billions and have heightened fears that more Americans will lose access to the nation’s safety net. Visit our dedicated trend page for more.

From @ewburak.bsky.social how pregnant & postpartum #Medicaid enrollees could lose their coverage due to work reporting requirements. While they are supposed to be exempt, they could fall through the cracks and get disenrolled due to the complex/onerous process: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/07/22/n...

From @joanalker1.bsky.social a CCF blog post on the Trump Administration finalizing its "public charge" rule which will reduce #Medicaid and CHIP enrollment among eligible children and lead to further increases in the child uninsured rate: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/07/24/t...

Here are CCF's public comments from Leo Cuello and me for the CMS proposed rule on #Medicaid state-directed payments which goes beyond H.R. 1 requirements to further roll back SDPs and will lead to greater reductions in access to needed care: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/07/21/c...

New @georgetownccf.bsky.social blog from me on CMS's new proposed rule implementing H.R. 1's restrictions on state use of provider taxes financing #Medicaid. It explains how the rule again goes beyond H.R. 1 requirements to make cost-shifts to states even larger: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/07/27/c...

The Trump admin is in court *today* defending its new rule requiring Medicaid patients with cancer and other chronic illnesses to prove they're too sick to work to maintain their insurance. 25 states and DC are asking a judge to block the rule. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

New @georgetownccf.bsky.social blog from me on CMS's new proposed rule implementing H.R. 1's restrictions on state use of provider taxes financing #Medicaid. It explains how the rule again goes beyond H.R. 1 requirements to make cost-shifts to states even larger: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/07/27/c...

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...

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.

Andy Kim suggests a new health care policy: -Enroll every child in Medicaid until the age of 26 www.notus.org/healthcare/a...

And it’s expected that a forthcoming CMS rule implementing those HR 1 provider tax provisions will go beyond H.R. 1 and be even more restrictive as well as target local government Medicaid financing too (IGTs). HR 1 didn’t address IGTs at all.

We’ve updated our SNAP Tracker with the latest data. We estimate more than 4.5M people have lost access to SNAP since the Republican reconciliation law’s July 2025 enactment, in part due to its changes. Explore state-by-state trends: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Computer system problems foreshadow trouble as states prepare to roll out the most significant and complicated changes to their Medicaid programs in years. https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/deloitte-medicaid-eligibility-system-denials-michigan-trump-policy-piles-on/

Doctors worry they’ll get pulled into proving that some Medicaid enrollees are “medically frail,” or too sick or disabled to be subject to the program’s new work rule, and they aren’t happy about it. kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/med...