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Jun 28

Families fear for future of Medicaid caregiver payment program

By Tom Murphy, Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

Many state Medicaid programs either started paying family caregivers or made more people eligible for help after the pandemic hit. But now with the COVID-19 public health emergency over, some states have already stopped the payments while others have yet…

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Jun 19

Post-pandemic purge of rolls sees 1 million people dropped from Medicaid

By David A. Lieb, Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press

About 1.5 million people have lost Medicaid coverage in more than two dozen states as a post-coronavirus pandemic purge of the rolls gets underway.

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Apr 30

The GOP wants to implement Medicaid work requirements. Here’s what that means

By Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

More than a half million of the poorest Americans could be left without health insurance under legislation passed by House Republicans that would require people to work in exchange for health care coverage through Medicaid. Here's a look at the proposal and…

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Apr 28

‘I’m trying not to go into panic.’ Review of millions of Medicaid enrollees plagued by error and confusion

By Amanda Seitz, Anita Snow, Associated Press

Advocacy groups have warned for months that confusion and errors will abound throughout the undertaking, wrongly leaving some of the country’s poorest people suddenly without health insurance and unable to pay for necessary medical care.

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Apr 27

Health care often takes a back seat after incarceration. Here’s how some states are working to change that

By Laura Santhanam, Tim McPhillips

More than a dozen other states are exploring ways to streamline access to Medicaid and make it easier for people preparing to leave U.S. jails and prisons to receive the care they need.

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Apr 11

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Millions at risk of losing Medicaid coverage as pandemic-era program ends

By William Brangham, Karina Cuevas

Before the pandemic, people had to re-enroll for Medicaid every year by submitting paperwork. That was suspended when COVID hit, but starting this month, Medicaid recipients have to make sure they are enrolled again. Not everyone will receive a notice…

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Apr 11

Why some cancer patients will fall off a Medicaid coverage cliff this summer

By Laura Santhanam

“There is a fear that a number of people are going to be lost, and fall through the cracks.”…

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Apr 10

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Uninsured patients say North Carolina’s Medicaid expansion is a life-changing development

By John Yang, Sam Weber, Kaisha Young

North Carolina is now the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The bipartisan expansion, signed into law last month, comes after a decade of Republican resistance in the state. As John Yang reports, it will be…

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Mar 29

Majority of Americans reject anti-trans bills, but support for this restriction is rising

By Laura Santhanam

Forty-three percent of Americans now say they support laws that criminalize the act of providing gender-transition-related medical care to minors, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll, marking a 15-percentage point increase in less than two years.

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Mar 23

North Carolina approves Medicaid expansion, reversing long opposition

By Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

Thursday's state House vote reverses longstanding opposition to the measure, which now goes to expansion advocate and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper for his signature.

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