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Many states are expanding their Medicaid programs to provide dental care to their poorest residents

A growing number of states are offering dental care to low-income adults who once had to rely on charity or the emergency room to treat their tooth problems

The Independent UK

Medicaid expansion to begin soon in North Carolina as governor decides to let budget bill become law

Some adults in North Carolina could get Medicaid coverage within weeks because Gov. Roy Cooper says he'll let the state budget bill coming to his desk become law

The Independent UK

The Case for Letting Medicare Bureaucrats Haggle With Drug Makers

Medicare's new price-setting process for drug purchases is better than its current one if the result is lower government spending.

Reason

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Medicaid coverage restored to about a half-million people after computer errors in many states

About a half-million people are regaining Medicaid coverage after the federal government says they were dropped inappropriately by states

The Independent UK

Appeals court takes up transgender health coverage case likely headed to Supreme Court

A federal appeals court is considering cases out of North Carolina and West Virginia that could have significant implications on whether individual states are required to cover health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance

The Independent UK

Mississippi governor set to release proposal to help financially struggling hospitals

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves is set to release a proposal aimed at helping some of the state’s financially struggling hospitals

The Independent UK

She has Medicare and Medicaid. So why should it take 18 months to get a wheelchair?

About 12 million Americans are known as "dual eligibles" because they need both Medicare and Medicaid. A bipartisan bill offers hope to cut through the tangle of red tape that often ensnares them.

WEKU

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The percentage of uninsured Texans in 2022 dropped to the lowest in a decade

Texas is still the state with the highest percentage of uninsured residents, at nearly 17 percent, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau survey released Thursday.

The Texas Tribune

Rural nursing home operators say new staff rules would cause more closures

The Biden administration says a recently proposed minimum staffing standard would help ensure quality care, but nursing home leaders predict it will accelerate a trend of closures in rural America.

WEKU

New SNAP rules cause further suffering

"Some 16.5 million Americans over age 65 . . . are living at or below 200% of the federal poverty level"

Salon

Income too high for Medicaid? ‘Spend down’ to qualify

Making more than the maximum income level for Medicaid isn’t necessarily a deal breaker

The Independent UK

Challengers seek rewrite of Missouri abortion-rights ballot measures, calling them misleading

Advocates are asking a Missouri judge to rewrite what they say are misleading descriptions of abortion-rights constitutional amendments

The Independent UK

Texas parents who care for their disabled children full time will lose money after pay raise

Texas Medicaid caregivers’ wages were already near the poverty level. But parents whose sole income came from taking care of their disabled children have now lost their ability to work overtime hours.

The Texas Tribune

The US committed to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, but like other countries, it's struggling to make progress

In a Zen parable, a man sees a horse and rider galloping by. The man asks the rider where he’s going, and the rider responds, “I don’t know. Ask the horse!”

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Roll Call

Medicare pandemic advances deepen debt for some hospitals - Roll Call

Congress poured billions into hospitals through advances on Medicare claims, but now some medical providers are struggling to pay it back.

Chicago Sun-Times

State issues guidance on co-pays for undocumented — just as advocates gathered to criticize Pritzker for health care cuts

Advocates argued the rules changes were too costly for low-income patients. The governor’s office said co-pays should not have been charged yet anyway, though they are expected to resume eventually.

Roll Call

HHS releases long-awaited nursing home staffing proposal - Roll Call

The Biden administration's proposed rule would mandate minimum staffing in nursing homes, but it falls short of what advocates had pushed for.

WEKU

Fake 'sober homes' targeting Native Americans scam millions from taxpayers

The scale of a scam to recruit Native Americans into fake treatment for substance in Phoenix and bill the government fraudulently is now emerging. It's huge.

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Medicare starts a long road to cutting prices for drugs, starting with 10 costing it $50.5 billion annually – a health policy analyst explains why negotiations are promising but will take years

The Biden administration released on Aug. 29, 2023, a list of the first 10 drugs that will be up for negotiations with pharmaceutical companies over their Medicare prices.

The Independent UK

Children getting wrongly dropped from Medicaid because of automation `glitch'

The federal Medicaid agency says some children may have been wrongly dropped from the government health-care program as states undertake a massive eligibility review

Fortune

A policy that supports America’s breastfeeding moms came into effect 11 years ago. It’s still not applied

'The failure of the U.S. health care system to support women is incredibly shortsighted.'

WEKU

Hollywood union health insurance is particularly good. And it's jeopardized by strike

Hollywood actors and writers who qualify for their union health plans get a very good deal compared to other Americans. But not working during the strike threatens their eligibility in the system.

The Texas Tribune

Dangers and deaths around Black pregnancies in Texas seen as a “completely preventable” health crisis

Despite a vast array of health resources, Black infants in Harris County are about twice as likely to die before their first birthday as those from other racial groups.

Salon

Could you soon have a food prescription?

"Many U.S. health care providers have been experimenting with "food is medicine" programs . . ."

The Independent UK

Millennial Money: How to manage caregiving costs for parents while raising kids

Nearly a quarter of millennials are caregivers for an adult, according to a 2020 AARP survey

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