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The Associated Press via Herald & Review
Diabetics skipping regular checkups. Young asthmatics not getting preventive care. A surge in expensive emergency room visits.
Doctors and public health experts warn of poor health and rising costs they say will come from sweeping Trump administration changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, as well as food stamps and other forms of public assistance. Some advocates say they're already seeing the fallout even before the complex 837-page rule takes effect in October.
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HealthPayerIntelligence
Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have improved coverage, access to care and coverage, and the economy, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation report.
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Wisconsin State Journal via Leader-Telegram
A federal judge has overturned a Wisconsin provision that barred transgender Medicaid recipients from receiving coverage for gender reassignment surgery and hormone treatment.
U.S. District Judge William Conley ruled Friday in favor of four transgender Wisconsin residents whose lawsuit challenged a 1997 administrative provision under the state Department of Health Services that excluded coverage of "transsexual surgery" for Medicaid recipients.
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St. Louis Public Radio
When Missouri officials announced earlier this year that more than 100,000 people, many of them children, had been dropped from the state Medicaid program, critics assailed the cuts as callous and unnecessary.
But House Speaker Elijah Haahr, R-Springfield, said Monday that the cuts largely resulted from a new computer system's ability to weed out enrollees who earned too much money to qualify for the program.
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KEYC-TV
A new Medicaid Benefit will be available to Minnesota seniors in July 2020.
The state has received approval from the federal government to provide housing support to seniors who may be on the brink of homelessness.
The new service will increase long-term stability by supporting people to plan for, find and move into their own homes.
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Jefferson Public Radio
The major political discussions about health insurance in our country revolve around how to get more people covered. So it perplexed more than a few observers when the numbers of children covered by public health insurance programs like Medicaid and CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) appeared to dip last year.
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mHealthIntelligence
A group of Wisconsin lawmakers plans to file a bill by the end of this month that calls for more Medicaid coverage for telehealth services — including payment and coverage parity.
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InsuranceNewsNet.com
At least three initiative petitions pushing for Medicaid expansion have been authorized by the Missouri Secretary of State's Office for circulation, with petitioners eyeing their placement on the November 2020 ballot for consideration by voters.
Two of those petitions were submitted by Heidi Miller, a physician in St. Louis. They seek an amendment to either Missouri law or the state constitution to adopt Medicaid expansion for individuals ages 19 to 64 with an income level at or below 133% of the federal poverty level, thereby requiring the state to maximize federal financial participation.
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WRCB-TV
Ducktown, Tennessee, Mayor Doug Collins said the expansion of Medicaid could have saved Copper Basin Medical Center from closing.
Copper Basin Medical Center closed in 2017. It left thousands of people without access to medical care.
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Oklahoma Watch
The question of whether to expand Medicaid and extend health insurance to thousands of Oklahomans promises to be a major topic over the next year.
The Healthcare Working Group, a bipartisan legislative committee charged with deciding whether to endorse Medicaid expansion or other policy moves, kicked off its work last week and is expected to unveil recommendations before next year's session. Meanwhile, a signature-collecting drive is underway to put a state question on a 2020 ballot to accept expansion.
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