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The Hill
Members of the centrist Tuesday Group expressed frustration at a Wednesday meeting with Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-New Jersey) over his Obamacare negotiations, according to two GOP aides. The lawmakers expressed frustration with MacArthur, a co-chairman of the group, for appearing to negotiate on behalf of the group and creating the pressure Tuesday Group members now face to back the deal, the aides said.
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Crain's Cleveland Business
About 95 percent of Medicaid expansion beneficiaries in Ohio would have no insurance option available if repealing the Affordable Care Act eliminates Medicaid expansion, according to a new study. The report, published in the American Journal of Public Health, found the overwhelming majority of newly enrolled Medicaid members in the state qualified because they didn't have private health insurance, lost their private insurance due to unemployment or weren't eligible for their employer's health plan.
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Miami Herald
Some low-income people who rely on Medicaid may have to meet new work requirements to keep their healthcare under legislation passed by the Florida House on Wednesday. Medicaid recipients who are able to work would have to prove to the state that they are working, actively seeking work or enrolled in a job-training program. It wouldn't apply to people with disabilities, the elderly and children, groups that make up the majority of Florida's Medicaid enrollment.
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Bangor Daily News
Maine will ask President Donald Trump's administration to let it further rein in the state's Medicaid program, announcing on Tuesday that the Department of Health and Human Services will have a comment period and two public hearings in May ahead of a formal request. The move was no surprise: Gov. Paul LePage's administration announced its plan in January to ask the Republican president to grant several changes to MaineCare, the state's version of Medicaid, the federal low-income healthcare program.
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Arkansas Online
A plan to move about 60,000 Arkansans off the state's expanded Medicaid program will save the state at least $66 million over the next four years while increasing premiums in the state's market for individual insurance plans by as much as 1.7 percent, state Department of Human Services officials said Wednesday. The savings would come from limiting eligibility in the state's Medicaid program to adults with incomes of up to the poverty level, instead of 138 percent of the poverty level.
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Marketplace
Paying for healthcare is an issue that worries many people. In the latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll, 75 percent of respondents said they were fearful they weren't going to be able to afford the services they or their family needs. Yet some state and federal lawmakers want people on Medicaid — the health program primarily for children, people with disabilities and low-income Americans — to be more concerned about healthcare costs.
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Kaiser Health News
Acute shortages of home health aides and nursing assistants are cropping up across the country, threatening care for people with serious disabilities and vulnerable older adults.
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Kaiser Health News
Patients and families are bombarded with the news that the country is winning the war against cancer. The news media hypes research results to attract readers. Drug companies promise "a chance to live longer" to boost sales. Hospitals woo paying customers with ads that appeal to patients' fears and hopes.
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