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How Medicaid work requirements would affect people in Midwest states
Thousands of Midwesterners obtained health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. A federal work ...
The TimesDaily7h
Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid. But what does Medicaid actually do?
Republicans in Congress are eyeing $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, the joint federal-state government health care program ...
Cutting federal Medicaid expansion funding could lead to 30K additional deaths: Analysis
An attempt by Republican lawmakers to roll back the federal government’s share of Medicaid expansion could result in tens of ...
California Healthline1d
Medi-Cal Under Threat: Who’s Covered and What Could Be Cut?
Federal law requires states to offer health insurance to many people with low incomes or disabilities. But some states, ...
What Does Medicaid Have To Do With Older Adults Anyway?
Medicaid spends more than half its budget on medical and long-term care for frail, low-income older adults and younger people ...
The Commonwealth Fund1d
Integrating Medicare and Medicaid: Policy Priorities to Improve Access and Care for Beneficiaries Under Age 65
To address the needs of dual-eligible people under 65, policymakers could focus on promoting better data collection and ...
Missouri Independent2d
A fifth of Americans are on Medicaid. Some of them have no idea
Some Americans who rely on Medicaid to pay for their health care don’t realize their insurance is funded by that very program ...
KFF Health News2d
States Push Medicaid Work Rules, but Few Programs Help Enrollees Find Jobs
Republicans are pushing to implement requirements that Medicaid recipients work in order to obtain or retain coverage. Some ...
Republicans are targeting a pillar of Obamacare. Millions of their own voters may pay a price
As the pressure grows on Congressional Republicans to identify cuts in Medicaid, they are crashing into a familiar problem: ...
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Scientists map part of a mouse’s brain that’s so complex it looks like a galaxy
“It definitely inspires a sense of awe, just like looking at ... leading researchers. “You get a sense of how complicated you are. We’re looking at one tiny part … of a mouse’s brain ...