Testimony: Health Care Services By Telelealth
Build Back Better or Build Back “Badder”?
Currently, there are more job openings available than there are people to fill them. Nationally, there are 10.4 million unfilled job openings and 7.4 unemployed workers. In Alaska, monthly job openings are not data that is […]
The Consequences of Ballooning Medicaid Enrollment
A recent update by Health Management Associates (HMA) shows that Alaska’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollment remains disproportionately high, and enrollment is maintaining a high growth rate more than five […]
Tackling Alaska’s High Health Care Costs
This op-ed originally appeared in several outlets, including the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Anchorage Daily News, and Peninsula Clarion. Unfortunately, many Alaskans have personally borne the brunt of our state’s extremely high health care […]
Federal COVID-19 Funds Come at a High Price
The CARES Act is the largest economic stimulus package ever created in the history of the United States. The $2 trillion bill was passed by the Senate on March 25, passed in the […]
Letter to Congress: Critical Flaw in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
On May 21, 2020, APF joined 23 other organizations in sending the following letter to the leadership of Congress to request a reversal of a critical flaw in the Families First Coronavirus Response […]
Moving Alaskans from Welfare to Work
And Protecting the Safety Net for the Truly Needy The Foundation for Government Accountability has released a memo with 12 recommendations for moving Alaskans off welfare and back into work, which will protect […]
Preserving Economic Opportunity for Medicaid Recipients
Care for the needy and assistance to those down on their luck are hallmarks of Americans across the country. Our concern for the vulnerable among us is evident in statistics which regularly place […]
Walker’s DHSS Medicaid Failure
All we can say is, “we told you so.” When the discussions on Medicaid Expansion began in earnest in 2013, we brought the facts to light over the next couple of years. There […]
Senate Bill 193 Testimony
Government can give opportunity to people, but it will never be able to give people what they truly want and what they need: They need dignity, achievement and self-worth. Those things are not […]
Will Alaska be Swallowed by Health Care Costs?
Some good questions were asked this week by state legislators about Alaska’s ballooning health care budget. On Wednesday, January 19 in the Senate Finance Committee meeting, Governor Walker’s Director of the Office of […]
Alaska Keeps Missing Important Deadlines . . . Stalling?
In 2016 in an attempt to bring down costs and improve care, the Alaska Legislature passed Senate Bill 74, which contained a multitude of Medicaid reform measures such as fraud-waste-and-abuse reduction, managed care […]