By: Jesse Cross-Call Health coverage takes effect tomorrow for people enrolling in Louisiana’s Medicaid expansion. Based on state projections and the experience of other expansion states, here is what we can expect: Dramatic gains in health coverage. The nation has made historic progress in reducing the number of uninsured since…

By: Edwin Park Update, June 30: Yesterday the Senate passed the debt restructuring bill for Puerto Rico previously passed by the House. The bill now goes to the President for his signature. The House will likely consider on Thursday bipartisan legislation, which the Administration strongly supports, that would address Puerto…

By: Edwin Park The health task force convened by House Speaker Paul Ryan reportedly will include a Medicaid “per capita cap” in the plan it will release next week.[1] That would radically restructure Medicaid’s current financing system, shifting costs to states while potentially harming tens of millions of vulnerable beneficiaries. Per Capita Cap Would Restructure Medicaid Financing and Shift Costs to States

By Robert Greenstein At first blush, universal basic income (UBI) seems a very attractive idea, especially to a progressive. Yet it suffers from two serious problems. First, the odds are very high that an effort to secure UBI would prove quixotic. Second, and more disconcerting, any possibility of overcoming the…