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Millions who rely on Medicaid may be booted from program

If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year

The Independent UK

This group gets left-leaning policies passed in red states. How? Ballot measures

The Fairness Project has won campaigns to raise the minimum wage and expand Medicaid in nine states dominated by Republicans. Next is abortion. But there's growing pushback from state lawmakers.

WEKU

Speaker Dade Phelan endorses Medicaid expansion for new mothers, repeal of “tampon tax” in first batch of 2023 priorities

The leader of the state House also threw his support behind bills to crack down on how companies handle private data and to protect children from “addictive algorithms” by digital companies.

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Pregnant Texans Now Travel 10 Times Farther for an Abortion

Texas legislator Donna Howard plans to collaborate with allies in and out of state in the fight to improve access to reproductive healthcare.

Texas Observer

Red and blue states look to Medicaid to improve the health of people leaving prison

People leaving jail or prison are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death, and policymakers from deep blue California to solidly red Utah think bringing Medicaid behind bars could help.

WEKU

US plans to allow Medicaid for drug treatment in prisons

The Biden administration is planning to reverse longstanding policy and allow the use of Medicaid to treat jail and prison inmates' substance use disorders and certain other health conditions

The Independent UK

Texas sues Biden administration over guidance to pharmacies on providing abortion-inducing drugs

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on February 7, 2023, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas challenging July 2022 guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that, according to Paxton, violates state sovereignty by seeking “to require…

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Anti-Medicaid Trumpkin advising GOP

Trump admin budget hawk Russ Vought "has emerged as one of the central voices shaping the looming showdown"

Salon

Texas town tries a new model for saving rural health care

BOWIE, Texas — After sitting empty and exposed to thieves and vandals for more than two years, the one-story hospital that served Bowie for more than five decades is close to making a comeback — of sorts.

Tribune News Service

Which type of eye doctor do you need? Optometrists and ophthalmologists face off

Optometrists are lobbying for more leeway to treat patients — and physicians' groups are pushing back. But it's more than a turf war, both sides say, as they explain why patients' vision is at stake.

WEKU

Commentary: The COVID ‘emergency’ is ending. Here’s who will be hurt most

In the State of the Union, President Joe Biden stated that “we have broken COVID’s grip on us.” Indeed, COVID-19 deaths are down about 75% since last year’s speech. Consistent with that progress, the Biden administration announced in January that it will end the public health emergency (and national emergency)…

Los Angeles Times

Thoughts on Dubin v. United States and the Aggravated Identity Theft Statute

18 U.S.C. § 1028A, this is your day in court.

Reason

LOCALIZE IT: Health facilities cited for COVID vaccinations

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The Independent UK

Health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end

A federal mandate for health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been in place nationally for a year

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Gov. Greg Abbott proposes devoting $15 billion to property tax cuts in budget plan

Abbott’s spending proposals also include spending $750 million on school safety and mental health services and expanding postpartum Medicaid to a year.

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3 Stocks to Keep in Your Portfolio for the Next 25 Years

Still-elevated inflation and a robust job market will likely keep the Federal Reserve officials on track to raise interest rates in the upcoming months. Amid ongoing market uncertainties, investors could consider adding fundamentally sound stocks, Visa (V), Cigna Corp. (CI), and Molina Healthcare (MOH), to their portfolios for long-term returns.…

Tribune News Service

As abortion measures loom, GOP raises new barriers to ballot initiatives

Roused by voters’ recent endorsement of abortion rights — even in conservative states — Republican legislators are ramping up efforts to make it tougher for citizens to change laws or amend state constitutions through ballot measures.

WEKU

House Budget Committee seeks to boost Medicaid reimbursements for hospitals

Legislation to potentially benefit Kentucky hospitals by a billion dollars collectively is moving to the full House. That’s according to Russell Representative Danny Bentley, a co-sponsor of House Bill 75.

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Axios

The administration's next crack at lower drug prices

The Biden administration unveiled three drug payment programs Tuesday aimed at helping reduce patients' out-of-pocket costs.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Getting past the debt blame game

The barbs exchanged at the State of the Union address remind us of the ease with which each party feels it can blame the other for the worsening of federal indebtedness year after year, Congress after Congress, and presidential administration after administration. These routinized charges are not only counterproductive, they…

Axios

Teen girls bear worst of mental health crisis

The teen mental health crisis is affecting girls almost twice as much as boys, according to new federal data.

Chicago Tribune

Shortage of in-home nurses leaves kids waiting in hospital beds. ‘The entire system is feeling the pressure.’

Ricardo Ruiz could have left the hospital two months ago. Instead, the toddler waited while his family searched for a nurse who could help care for him at home.

WEKU

'Dr. Lisa on the Street' busts health myths and empowers patients

She's seen what happens when people don't trust or understand their doctor. Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick founded 'Grapevine Health' to get solid information out, especially to Black and Latinx patients.

Salon

Pill Club settles Medicaid fraud suit

An online pharmacy has reached an $18.3 million settlement over claims it defrauded the state

Tribune News Service

Era of ‘free’ COVID vaccines, test kits and treatments is ending. Who will pay the tab now?

Time is running out for free-to-consumer COVID-19 vaccines, at-home test kits and some treatments.

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