Medicaid Campaign Resources

Federal Medicaid cuts are coming to our communities. Every state in the country is going to be under enormous budget pressure in the coming years. How they respond will have a huge impact on the health and financial wellbeing of their residents.

Many of the options facing state lawmakers are downright harmful, including restricting Medicaid eligibility; cutting “optional” services like pharmacy and dentistry; or reducing funding for other state programs like education.

But the large number of states that contract with corporate health insurers to administer Medicaid have another option: Cancel their managed care contracts, recoup tens or hundreds of billions of dollars annually, and protect residents from the worst impacts of federal Medicaid cuts.

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State Legislation

• Hawaii Medicaid deprivatization bill
• Minnesota Medicaid deprivatization bill
• Washington Medicaid deprivatization bill
• Connecticut Medicaid deprivatization bill (passed in 2010)

To see how deprivatization would impact Medicaid spending in your state, click HERE.

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Campaign Materials

• PNHP report: “Removing the Middlemen from Medicaid”
• Annual Meeting Slideshow: “Medicaid Managed Care”
• Full color one-page handout
• Black & white one-page handout

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Dr. Ed Weisbart makes the case for deprivatization

PNHP national board secretary (and report co-author) Dr. Ed Weisbart dove into the details of “Removing the Middlemen from Medicaid: A Blueprint for Better Care and Lower Costs” during an Oct. 2025 People’s Action webinar.

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Medical student leaders at PNHP’s Annual Meeting

SNaHP leaders Amelia Smith (MS, M2, report co-author) and Gita Lakshminarayanan (M3/PhD candidate) presented an overview of “Removing the Middlemen from Medicaid: A Blueprint for Better Care and Lower Costs” at PNHP’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.