Medicaid at Risk

Medicaid requirements threaten health care access

In this policy brief, Senior Researcher Amanda Woodrum examines Ohio’s request to the federal government to drop hundreds of thousands of Ohioans from Medicaid if they cannot get enough work or prove they should be exempt from the state’s newly proposed requirements.

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Note: This page collects work related to previous and ongoing attacks on Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion. For related work, please refer to our Health & Health Equity page.

Nothing healthy about it

The misleadingly named "Healthy Ohio Plan" will make Ohioans less healthy. Click here to learn more.

Medicaid requirements threaten health care access

In this policy brief, Policy Matters Ohio examines Ohio’s request to the federal government to drop hundreds of thousands of Ohioans from Medicaid if they cannot get enough work or prove they should be exempt from the state’s newly proposed requirements. Read more...

Medicaid supports Ohio Jobs

Ohio will have almost 54,000 more full and part-time jobs in 2019 than it would have had we not expanded Medicaid.

Sample Local Resolution

County and municipal legislators and advocates can use or adapt this model resolution to formalize their opposition to Medicaid cuts.

New ACA repeal plan threatens Ohioans

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), which helps people of low and modest income get health insurance, was under assault by Congress for most of last year. It survived, but the battle is starting again. Read more...

Policy Matters Ohio's public comment on federal waiver request

Ohio’s demonstration proposal puts hundreds of thousands at risk of losing Medicaid because the inflexible work requirement is ill-suited to the characteristics of the low-wage labor market and because proving compliance or exemption to the new requirement will pose an insurmountable barrier for those with a disability, poor health, lack of transportation, uncertain access to food or unstable housing. Read more...

Medicaid work requirements deceptively cite academic research

The federal government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services cites research to justify new regulations. The problem is, the research does no such thing.

Fact sheet: Medicaid works; work requirements don’t

Medicaid expansion helps Ohioans see a doctor when they are sick or injured. Health coverage makes it easier for workers to work and for unemployed people to look for work. Ohio has received federal approval to make expanded Medicaid enrollees meet work requirements. This will drive down health coverage.