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SD providers hope over $500 million for rural health care offsets expected Medicaid coverage losses
Changes to Medicaid could leave thousands of South Dakotans uninsured and impair an already fragile rural health care system, ...
State forecasts loss of $1.4B in Medicaid funding; 140K will lose coverage
As changes to Medicaid funding and enrollment requirements come into effect over the next few years, the Minnesota Department ...
140,000 Minnesotans could lose health care coverage over federal Medicaid cuts, state says
A new state analysis found that up to 140,000 Minnesotans could lose health care coverage due to federal Medicaid spending ...
Fearing Medicaid coverage loss, some parents rush to vaccinate their kids
Throughout the country, pediatricians say anxious parents are concerned about access to routine childhood immunizations, ...
Planned Parenthood of Illinois names new CEO as it faces loss of Medicaid funds
Adrienne White-Faines will be the new president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois starting in early September. Most ...
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Cutting Medicaid Funding Isn't the Only Worrisome Change to the Program
Despite the late Justice Louis Brandeis's famous praise of the American political system for helping courageous states serve as "laboratories of democracy," the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
The Democrats’ Empty Outrage Over Medicaid Cuts
States, if they wanted to, could fund the program themselves, but the taxes needed to keep the program afloat lack for ...
Medicaid cuts threaten N.Y. ED surge, hospital funding and EMS systems
With 30,000 Central New Yorkers expected to lose insurance under new federal Medicaid work requirements, Syracuse hospitals ...
On Medicaid anniversary, Gov. Walz describes a looming 'threat' to the program due to new federal law
MAPLEWOOD, Minnesota — On the sixtieth anniversary of Medicaid's establishment, Gov. Walz visited M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital on Wednesday and criticized the recent law signed by President ...
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New York State grapples with cuts to Medicaid in Republican tax bill
The cuts to Medicaid enacted by Republicans in Washington have such enormous negative ramifications for New York State's ...
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Weight-loss drugs too costly for AZ patients on Medicaid, until obesity leads to diabetes
Editors: Story has been updated from original, with material from the president of the Arizona Obesity Organization. Slug: ...
Looming Medicaid work requirements could worsen Missouri backlogs in social services
Kevin Wehner has been there for Missourians as they have dealt with unanswered questions, long wait times and the confusion ...