This is an “unwelcome mat” effect I am very worried about in the Medicaid unwinding. And another reason states have to distinguish messages to parents about their own coverage and that of their children. Eligibility may well be different - especially in non expansion states.

42% of asylum cases decided by judges in Los Angeles this fiscal year were denied compare to 53% Nationwide. A variety of factors influence geographic variations in case outcomes. Data as of January 2023, available here trac.syr.edu/phptools/immig…

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It's time to break out thechampagne--Medicaid expansion has, at long last, arrived in North Carolina! wral.com/top-nc-lawmake… CC: @emma_sandoe

To illustrate what a 70% cut in Medicaid would mean: If it were achieved through an across-the-board reduction in eligibility, it would require eliminating Medicaid coverage for over 50 million people, based on CBO projections. cbo.gov/system/files?f… Margot Sanger-Katz

Another big finding? On average, 3 in 4 Americans supported each policy tool. Read the full piece here > Most Americans Support Minimizing Administrative Burdens for #Medicaid Recipients as the Public Health Emergency Ends osf.io/86bpx @donmoyn Texas A&M Public Health

Most state Medicaid programs face significant staffing challenges as they prepare to resume disenrollments and renewals. More than half of reporting states in our survey (16 of 26) have staff vacancy rates of greater than 10% for eligibility workers. kff.org/medicaid/repor…

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NEW: As states prepare to resume Medicaid disenrollments, there is variation in strategies states are adopting that might make it easier for eligible people to retain coverage. We examine how states plan to unwind the continuous enrollment provision. kff.org/medicaid/repor…

Growing evidence from over 30 years of experience shows that taking SNAP (food assistance) away from people that don’t meet work requirements just makes it harder for people to afford food and doesn’t improve employment rates. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36868947/

another gov agency trying to make applications easier - this time, it's HHS working with USDS to work on applications for federally funded childcare. they say that multi-benefit applications are next on the list. FCW fcw.com/digital-govern…

One strategy states have been deploying to try to make sure Medicaid enrollees don’t miss notices from the state is using colored envelopes. Texas is using yellow envelopes. Louisiana, pink. And New Mexico, as written up in this AP story, turquoise. apnews.com/article/medica…

If my math is right, that's about 4% of the people who were enrolled in the program (using numbers on Idaho's enrollment from the Dec. 2022 report, which is the most recent enrollment data available)

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What's interesting though is they break out MAGI vs. non-MAGI apps. AR automatically enrolls SSI recipients in Medicaid. But I think the non-MAGI pop is a big concern in states that require separate apps for SSI and Medicaid (like ID, which is posting data, but not by case type)

CBO says Medicaid work will not have much impact on jobs or work hours. So the real impact (and savings) comes from red tape that causes people who are working and can't work to be dropped. cbo.gov/system/files/2…

This short comment from Andrew Gelman on designing experiments is pointed and useful. Love the de-emphasis on power analysis but emphasis on simulating and making hard choices. PDF: stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/resear…

"Projects developed in partnership with policymakers are 17-20% points more likely to result in policy change ... partnerships most often occur earlier in the term when political conditions are conducive to experimentation & reform" -- Cool paper by Alix Bonargent

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