{"id":1778,"date":"2023-09-27T20:02:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T20:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2023-09-27T20:02:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T20:02:16","slug":"more-medicaid-messiness-kff-health-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"More Medicaid Messiness – KFF Health News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Federal officials have instructed at least 30 states to reinstate Medicaid and Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program coverage for half a million people, including children, after an errant computer program wrongly determined they were no longer eligible. It\u2019s just the latest hiccup in the yearlong effort to redetermine the eligibility of beneficiaries now that the program\u2019s pandemic-era expansion has expired.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the federal government is on the verge of a shutdown, as a small band of House Republicans resists even a short-term spending measure to keep the lights on starting Oct. 1. Most of the largest federal health programs, including Medicare, have other sources of funding and would not be dramatically impacted \u2014 at least at first. But nearly half of all employees at the Department of Health and Human Services would be furloughed, compromising how just about everything runs there.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of Pink Sheet.<\/p>\n

Among the takeaways from this week\u2019s episode:<\/p>\n