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A smart move on tax day: Sign up for health insurance using your state's tax forms

Paying taxes can be agonizing. So can shopping for health insurance. But a handful of states have made enrolling in subsidized or free coverage a little easier for people when they file their taxes

WEKU

When cancer meets lack of insurance

“It is very random — that’s, I think, the heartbreaking part about it."

Salon

Commentary: A Medicaid catastrophe is looming. It can be avoided

Last week saw a win and a loss for health care. North Carolina became the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. That’s a big victory for the estimated 600,000 low-income adults in North Carolina who will now be eligible for government insurance and join the millions…

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Trump Commuted His Sentence. Now the Justice Department Is Going To Prosecute Him Again.

Philip Esformes' case is a story about what happens when the government violates some of its most basic promises.

Reason

Gov. Newsom wanted California to cut ties with Walgreens. Then federal law got in the way

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom declared last month that California was “done” doing business with Walgreens after the pharmacy chain said it would not distribute an abortion pill in 21 states where Republicans threatened legal action. Since then, KHN has learned that the Democratic governor must compromise on his…

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Editorial: How Medicaid purge will hurt Floridians

The federal government’s temporary expansion of Medicaid during the pandemic helped millions of Floridians weather the public health crisis. With that coverage ending, Florida needs to carefully draw down the rolls, ensuring that those eligible continue to receive uninterrupted care, that health providers don’t suffer financial shock and that community…

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In Texas, Medicaid coverage ends soon after childbirth. Will lawmakers allow more time?

Victoria Ferrell Ortiz learned she was pregnant during summer 2017. The Dallas resident was finishing up an AmeriCorps job with a local nonprofit, which offered her a small stipend to live on but no health coverage. She applied for Medicaid so she could be insured during the pregnancy.

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Elderly, disabled Texans wanting to stay in their homes threatened by low home care pay

AUSTIN, Texas — For 40 hours a week, Angela Blankenship takes care of Rick Frame, who’s been paralyzed from the neck down since a 1999 motorcycle accident.

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Editorial: Obamacare’s good Rx: Even as some Republican-leaning states wake up to the value of expanding Medicaid eligibility, a bitter few hang on and harm their citizens

If only politicians had to recite the Hippocratic oath. Instead, some do what’s best for the well-being of the people they represent while others continue to reject the best evidence and serve their own narrow ideological and partisan ends.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The medical debt burden

The legacy of more than two centuries of inequality that haunts Virginia and other Southern states affects us more than we may realize.

Tribune News Service

How to reenroll for Medicaid as coverage cliff approaches

Between five and 14 million people across the nation could lose Medicaid coverage.

Axios

Republican state senator goes after Governor Beshear for veto of SB 65

Republican State Senator Steve West has accused Gov. Andy Beshear of playing politics by vetoing a bill that would end his expansion of Medicaid dental, vision and hearing benefits.

WEKU

Pandemic Medicaid coverage is ending. Here’s what that means for people using Medicaid health benefits.

Texas is reviewing the eligibility of people on Medicaid health plans or Healthy Texas Women now that pandemic Medicaid coverage is ending. Here’s what that means, how to renew your health coverage or find other options if you no longer qualify.

The Texas Tribune

As more Republican states expand Medicaid to all, Florida lawmakers focus on kids

Florida is unlikely to expand Medicaid this year, as North Carolina and other Republican states have done recently, but lawmakers are pushing measures they say will expand health care for more children from low-income families.

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Congressman seeks to plug ‘shocking loophole’ exposed by KHN investigation

A U.S. lawmaker is taking action after a KHN investigation exposed weaknesses in the federal system meant to stop repeat Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse.

Axios

The quiet privatization of government health insurance programs

Medicare and Medicaid have become increasingly dominated by private plans.

The Independent UK

N. Carolina governor signs Medicaid expansion bill into law

North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has signed a Medicaid expansion law that was a decade in the making

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Why Medicaid expansion will overcome Florida politics

North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature last week approved the expansion of Medicaid to more low-income adults, leaving only 10 states that continue to reject the federal government’s incentives under the Affordable Care Act. Medicaid expansion, aimed at adults who make too much money to qualify for conventional Medicaid but not enough…

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Salon

Medicaid rate debacle hurting staffers

Some health providers have raised wages but still struggled to draw workers and keep the ones they’ve got

Tribune News Service

Hundreds of thousands of Florida children could lose health coverage with Medicaid cutbacks

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Marne Harvich of Orange Park runs a Facebook group for Florida parents like herself who count on Medicaid as health insurance for their children. Though Harvich and her husband work, their income doesn’t cover the high cost of medical care their daughter on a ventilator requires.

The Independent UK

California looks to spend some Medicaid money on housing

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to use Medicaid money to pay for housing for some vulnerable people

Tribune News Service

Missouri Republicans still want to restrict Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood after abortion ban

Despite Missouri’s sweeping abortion ban, some Republicans are still attacking Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid reimbursements.

Tribune News Service

Prescription for housing? California wants Medicaid to cover 6 months of rent

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose administration is struggling to contain a worsening homelessness crisis despite record spending, is trying something bold: tapping federal health care funding to cover rent for homeless people and those at risk of losing their housing.

The Independent UK

Senators press Moderna CEO on COVID-19 vaccine price hike

Moderna’s CEO is defending a plan to more than quadruple the company’s COVID-19 vaccine price

Chicago Sun-Times

Medical debt is devastating Illinois families, a new report shows

Patients rack up big medical bills because they don’t know financial help is available. A proposed law would mandate that hospitals screen the uninsured for financial aid.

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