NHeLP: Ensure Coverage Gap Legislation Offers Medicaid Protections

The National Health Law Program says Congress should create a federally run Medicaid program in order to close the coverage gap or reform exchange subsidies and qualified health plans that would be available to those in the gap to offer the same protections as Medicaid. A Democratic lawmaker’s office said an answer on whether Medicaid gap legislation will appear in the reconciliation bill is expected in the coming weeks. In a report released Monday (June 28), NHeLP says that if...