A fierce battle with Georgia over a Medicaid experiment with stricter enrollment underscores the vast divide between parties over how to cover lower-income Americans.
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Abortion, drug prices at play for Trump-Biden debate
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White House extends health insurance access to ‘Dreamers’
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Becerra says rural health would improve if states expand Medicaid
Rural health outcomes would improve if more states expanded Medicaid, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra told a Senate panel Tuesday.
During a hearing on the administration's budget request, Sen. Cindy-Hyde Smith (R-Miss.) said she is particularly worried about maternal care deserts caused by hospital closures. Mississippi sees some of the worst maternal health outcomes in the country, she said, and often leads the country in infant mortality.
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Nearly one-quarter of adults booted from Medicaid are still uninsured, survey finds
Nearly a quarter of adults who said they were disenrolled from Medicaid coverage in the past year since states started resuming eligibility checks remain uninsured, according to a survey released Friday by KFF.
The survey is the first to look at health coverage among adults who had Medicaid coverage in early 2023, just before states resumed eligibility checks and disenrollments after pandemic-era protections ended.
It found that nearly half of th...
Congress sends Biden bill to fund health agencies
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Biden administration cracks down on prior authorization
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Record 20M sign up for ACA coverage
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More Than 20 Million People Have Signed Up for Obamacare Plans, Blowing by Record
The Biden administration said that a record number of Americans had signed up for coverage in 2024 through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, a sign of the law’s durability.
3 million children lose Medicaid coverage
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