Healthy Adult Opportunity waiver

Medicaid is consuming an ever-larger share of spending at the federal and state level and squeezing out other public policy priorities.  In response to the growing financial and design stagnation, the current administration released its Healthy Adult Opportunity wavier to offer states a simplified process to experiment with the design and financing of their Medicaid programs in ways that reflect the diversity of those who are on it.  Although opponents claim this waiver will undermine Medicaid, but according to Nina Owcharenko Schaefer’s article for the Daily Signal, this new waiver gives some states the flexibility and resources needed to better manage and tailor the way care is delivered in their Medicaid program.  Read her article here…

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