{"id":24249,"date":"2025-04-11T09:21:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24249"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:22:00","slug":"5-key-facts-about-medicaid-coverage-for-adults-with-chronic-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24249","title":{"rendered":"5 Key Facts About Medicaid Coverage for Adults with Chronic Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Heather Saunders, Alice Burns, and Robin Rudowitz for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Apr 10, 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chronic conditions (also referred to as chronic disease or illness) have drawn increased attention in recent months, partly due to the focus on chronic conditions under HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s \u201cMake America Healthy Again,\u201d (MAHA) initiative. Among working age adults enrolled in Medicaid, approximately three quarters have one or more chronic conditions, and nearly one-third have three or more. Medicaid coverage facilitates access to care for this population.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicaid\/issue-brief\/5-key-facts-about-medicaid-coverage-for-adults-with-chronic-conditions\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicaid\/issue-brief\/5-key-facts-about-medicaid-coverage-for-adults-with-chronic-conditions\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"147\" height=\"138\" class=\"wp-image-7499\" style=\"width: 147px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kaiser-Family-Foundation.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Heather Saunders, Alice Burns, and Robin Rudowitz for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Apr 10, 2025) Chronic conditions (also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,53,16],"tags":[261,67,94],"class_list":["post-24249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-hhs","category-medicaid","tag-hhs","tag-medicaid","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24250,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24249\/revisions\/24250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}