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Farewell, School House Rock (Understanding Legislative History Through The Lens Of The Aca), Nicole Huberfeld

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In this blog post, Professor Nicole Huberfeld reviews John Cannan's article A Legislative History of the Affordable Care Act: How Legislative Procedure Shapes Legislative History, 105 L. Library J. 131 (2013).

Emergency Response: A Systemic Approach To Diaper Rash, Chest Pain, And Medicaid In The Ed, Sallie Thieme Sanford

Kentucky Law Journal

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Medicaid, Marketplaces, And Premium Assistance: What Is At Stake In Arkansas? The Perils And Pitfalls Of Medicaid Expansion Through Marketplace Premium Assistance, Sidney D. Watson

Kentucky Law Journal

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"Hobby-Lobby"-Ing For Religious Freedom: Crafting The Religious Employer Exemption To The Ppaca, Emily Pitt Mattingly

Kentucky Law Journal

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Giving Meaning To "Meaningful Access" In Medicaid Managed Care, Mary Crossley

Kentucky Law Journal

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Medicaid Evolution For The 21st Century, John V. Jacobi

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Future Of Medicaid Supplemental Payments: Can They Promote Patient-Centered Care?, Laura D. Hermer, Merle Lenihan

Kentucky Law Journal

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Crafting A Narrative For The Red State Option, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Pay Or Play Penalty Under The Affordable Care Act: Emerging Issues, Kathryn L. Moore

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The Affordable Care Act does not require that employers provide employees with health care coverage. It does, however, impose an excise tax on large employers that fail to offer their employees affordable employer-sponsored health care coverage. The excise tax, commonly referred to as a “pay-or-play penalty,” was scheduled to go into effect beginning in 2014. The United States Treasury Department (“Treasury”), however, has delayed enforcement of the penalty until 2015 for employers with 100 or more full-time employees, and until 2016 for employers with 50 to 99 employees.

Implementation of the pay-or-play penalty has given rise to a host of …

Medicaid Expansion As Completion Of The Great Society, Nicole Huberfeld, Jessica L. Roberts

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

On the doorstep of its fiftieth anniversary, Medicaid at last could achieve the ambitious goals President Lyndon B. Johnson enunciated for the Great Society upon signing Medicare and Medicaid into law in 1965. Although the spotlight shone on Medicare at the time, Medicaid was the “sleeper program” that caught America’s neediest in its safety net—but only some of them. Medicaid’s exclusion of childless adults and other “undeserving poor” loaned an air of “otherness” to enrollees, contributing to its stigma and seeming political fragility. Now, Medicaid touches every American life. One in five Americans benefits from Medicaid’s healthcare coverage, and that …