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    Seema Verma, chief administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says the changes in the way Medicaid is funded and regulated in Tennessee "could be a national model moving forward."
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    Trump Officials Approve Tennessee's Controversial Request To Revamp Medicaid Funding

    Jan 09, 2021
    The plan, long endorsed by conservatives, would give the state broad flexibility in running its health insurance program for the poor, while capping annual federal funding for the program.
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    Demonstrators pray in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on July 8, a day the court ruled that employers with religious objections can decline to provide contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act. With the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the ACA's
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    The Future Of The Affordable Care Act In A Supreme Court Without Ginsburg

    Sep 21, 2020
    The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg comes just as the Supreme Court was about to hear a case challenging the ACA. It could end Medicaid expansion and protections for preexisting conditions.
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    Nika Cotton recently opened  Soulcentricitea in Kansas City, Mo. When public schools shut down in the spring, Cotton had no one to watch her young children who are 8 and 10. So she quit her job in social work — and lost her health insurance — in orde
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    Missouri Voters Approve Medicaid Expansion Despite Resistance From Republican Leaders

    Aug 05, 2020
    Missouri is the second state to expand the health care program via ballot measure during the pandemic. Nearly a quarter-million people could get health insurance thanks to the measure.
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    Voters in Kirkwood, Mo., cast ballots on Nov. 6, 2018 that helped decide the balance of power in Congress. Next week they'll get the chance to decide whether to expand Medicaid in their state. The measure could extend health coverage to more than 230,000
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    Will Missouri Be The Next Red State To Expand Medicaid? Voters To Decide

    Jul 30, 2020
    Advocates for expansion say it would create jobs, protect hospitals from budget cuts, bring billions of federal taxpayer dollars back to the state, and bring health coverage to 230,000 more people.
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    Shots - Health News
    Casa de Salud clinicians, staff and health apprentices socially distance outside their New Mexico clinic. The facility is one of many social safety net clinics that haven't yet received pandemic-related funding and are now on the brink financially.
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    Medicaid Clinics And Doctors Have Been Last In Line For COVID-19 Relief Funding

    May 18, 2020
    Congress authorized $100 billion to reimburse health care providers for losses linked to the pandemic, but much of that money has gone for Medicare patients, with low-income families left behind.
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    Health Insurance Options Open, Responding To COVID-19 Crisis

    Apr 10, 2020

    On March 5, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak adopted 

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    A patient with suspected COVID-19 arrives at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn in early April. Even as the risk of big medical bills climbs, many Americans are losing their jobs and health insurance right now.
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    Coronavirus Reset: How To Get Health Insurance Now

    Apr 03, 2020
    At least 27 million Americans who lost their jobs in recent weeks also lost their health insurance, a new report finds. Others lacked a health plan even before COVID-19 hit. Here's how to find help.
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    A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that blocked work requirements in Arkansas and in Kentucky, which has since rescinded them. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar is seen testifying before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.
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    U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Blocking States' Medicaid Work Requirements

    Feb 14, 2020
    A three-judge panel found the Trump administration failed to analyze whether such requirements "would promote the primary objective of Medicaid — to furnish medical assistance," as required by law.
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    Glenn Hurst gives Jeannette Massen a checkup at the Northcrest Living Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. As they prepare to caucus, voters weigh which candidate to support and what health care should look like in the future.
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    As Caucus Day Nears, Iowa Voters Guided By Big Health Care Changes

    Jan 31, 2020
    Health care has consistently polled as the No. 1 issue for Iowa voters. As they prepare to caucus, voters weigh which candidate to support and what health care should look like in the future.
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    Shots - Health News
    Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, announced a new way states can operate their Medicaid programs.
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    Trump Administration Clears The Way For Medicaid Block Grants

    Jan 30, 2020
    States can now apply to set up their Medicaid program with capped funding from the federal government. With this move, the administration delivers on a long-held conservative goal.
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    Shots - Health News
    Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, appeared before the House Oversight Committee during a contentious hearing on drug pricing on Feb. 4, 2016.
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    A Decade Marked By Outrage Over Drug Prices

    Dec 31, 2019
    Nearly 1 in 4 Americans has trouble affording prescription drugs, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Over the past decade, high prices of several medicines have become flashpoints.
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    Eliza Oliver helps her daughter, Taelyn, step down from the exam table after a wellness check at the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Fort Scott, Kan. The child's doctor now has a medical scribe to takes notes. The visit this time seemed mo
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    1 Year After Losing Its Hospital, A Rural Town Is Determined To Survive

    Dec 26, 2019
    Anger and fear have turned to pragmatic hope in the year since the people of Fort Scott, Kan., lost their hospital to corporate downsizing. A community health center remains. So far, so good.
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    Shots - Health News
    Kaydee Edralin and her husband, along with many other students at Brigham Young University-Idaho were upset they would have to buy additional health insurance after the university said it would not consider Medicaid to be valid insurance. The school reve
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    Reversing Course, Idaho Campus Lets Students Use Medicaid As Health Coverage

    Nov 26, 2019
    Idaho just expanded access to Medicaid, helping tens of thousands get coverage. But a university there refused to accept Medicaid, forcing students to pay for plans. On Tuesday it changed that policy.
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    Shots - Health News
    Licensed practical nurse Stephanie Dotson measures Kent Beasley's blood pressure in downtown Atlanta in September. Dotson is a member of the Mercy Care team that works to bring medical care to Atlanta residents who are homeless.
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    They Bring Medical Care To The Homeless And Build Relationships To Save Lives

    Nov 21, 2019
    "Street medicine" programs, like one in Atlanta, seek out people living in back alleys and under highways. The public health outreach improves patients' health and is cost-effective, hospitals find.
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    Sandra King Young runs Medicaid in American Samoa, a U.S. territory that faces dramatic funding cuts to islanders' health care unless Congress acts. "This is the United States' shame in the islands," she says.
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    America's 'Shame': Medicaid Funding Slashed In U.S. Territories

    Nov 20, 2019
    Five U.S. territories say if Congress doesn't quickly allocate more funding for their Medicaid programs, they will be forced to make brutal triage decisions that will likely cost American lives.
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    Shots - Health News
    Democratic presidential candidates former Vice President Joe Biden (left), Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (right) debate different ways to expand health coverage in America.
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    Why Even Universal Health Coverage Isn't Enough

    Nov 15, 2019
    As U.S. presidential candidates prep for their next debate, a doctor-to-be asks them, and us all, to remember that even universal access to health care won't fix other disparities that hurt health.
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    Shots - Health News
    Kate Clyatt, 28, works seasonally as a ranch hand in southwest Montana, and relies on the state's Medicaid program for health coverage. "Ranching is just not a job with a lot of money in it," Clyatt says. "I don't know at what point I'm going to be able
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    Rural Seasonal Workers Worry About Montana Medicaid's Work Requirements

    Nov 03, 2019
    Montana is one of several states that want Medicaid recipients to prove they work a steady, minimum number of hours monthly. Will federal courts allow the Montana rule change to stand?
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    Colorado estimates that about 15% of the 12 million letters it sends to beneficiaries of public assistance programs each year are returned unopened, left to pile up in county offices like this one in Colorado Springs. That amounts to about 1.8 million pi
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    Return To Sender? Just One Missed Letter Can Be Enough To End Medicaid Benefits

    Nov 01, 2019
    Colorado, like a number of states, is struggling with huge piles of returned mail linked to public aid programs such as Medicaid or food stamps. But is dropping people from such assistance the answer?
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    Multiple groups are trying to delay — and ultimately block — the Trump administration's public charge rule. The new rule makes it more difficult for immigrants to get green cards if it seems they might need public assistance.
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    Advocates Try To Help Migrants Navigate Trump's Public Charge Rule

    Oct 11, 2019
    Advocacy groups are trying to help immigrants navigate the Trump administration's rule change that says legal immigrants will be less likely to be able to stay in the U.S. if they use public benefits.
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    Shots - Health News
    Missouri resident Patricia Powers had no health insurance when she was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago; she and her disabled husband were struggling to get by on, at most, $1,500 a month.  If they'd lived across the river in Illinois, she'd have be
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    State Border Splits Neighbors Into Medicaid Haves And Have-Nots

    Oct 01, 2019
    On the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, many families struggling financially can get health care, thanks to Medicaid expansion. Meanwhile, their neighbors on the Missouri side don't qualify.
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    Shots - Health News
    The rate of uninsured children has risen in the last two years, after declining since 2008.
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    Fewer Children Had Health Insurance In 2018 Than Year Before, Census Data Shows

    Sep 10, 2019
    After years of decline, rates of uninsured children on on the rise. Immigrants and Hispanics saw large growth, possibly because of Trump administration policies.
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    Shots - Health News
    In rugged, rural areas, patients often have little choice about how they'll get to the hospital in an emergency. "The presence of private equity in the air ambulance industry indicates that investors see profit opportunities," a 2017 report from the fede
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    Wyoming Wants To Use Medicaid To Reduce Air Ambulance Bills For All Patients

    Aug 23, 2019
    Frustrated with sky-high bills from air ambulance companies, Wyoming hopes to hammer down those charges with more regulation. The companies say such a proposal undermines free enterprise.
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    Shots - Health News
    John Poynter of Clarksville, Tenn., uses a wall calendar to keep track of all his appointments for both behavioral health and physical ailments. His mental health case manager, Valerie Klein, appears regularly on the calendar — and helps make sure he g
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    Coordinating Care Of Mind And Body Might Help Medicaid Save Money And Lives

    Aug 07, 2019
    Tennessee's innovative Medicaid program is offering bonuses to mental health providers who help make sure their Medicaid patients get preventive help and treatment for physical ailments too.
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    Demonstrators rallied in Sacramento in May for Medi-Cal expansion to undocumented Californians. When the state's budget was finalized, only young adults up to age 26 were authorized to be included in the expansion. Gov. Gavin Newsom says that's an import
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    Young Undocumented Californians Cheer Promise Of Health Benefits

    Jul 11, 2019
    In January, California expects to enroll 138,000 undocumented, low-income residents under age 26 in the state's version of Medicaid. But young adults say their parents need health care coverage, too.
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    Shots - Health News
    Dr. Rebekah Gee, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, negotiated a deal with a drugmaker to get the state a better price for expensive hepatitis C medications for its Medicaid and prison populations.
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    Louisiana's Novel 'Subscription' Model For Pricey Hepatitis C Drugs Gains Approval

    Jun 26, 2019
    Certain high-cost drugs are straining state budgets. A new deal approved Wednesday allows Louisiana to spend a fixed amount for unlimited access to a costly cure. Other states may try to follow suit.

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