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Washington state retools first-in-the-nation long-term care benefit

Patricia Keys, 71 and a stroke survivor, needs help with many everyday activities, such as dressing and bathing. Her daughter Christina, who lives near her mom in Vancouver, Washington, cares for her in the evenings and pays about $3,000 a month for help from other caregivers.

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Health insurance coverage for kids through Medicaid and CHIP helps their moms too

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Pandemic's end could surge the number of uninsured kids

The Medicaid rolls could soon shrink.

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Who doesn’t text in 2022? Most state Medicaid programs

West Virginia will use the U.S. Postal Service and an online account this summer to connect with Medicaid enrollees about the expected end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, which will put many recipients at risk of losing their coverage.

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Carl P. Leubsdorf: Celebrating Obamacare's successes

Former President Barack Obama’s joyous return to the White House marked an occasion many never expected to see: the 12th anniversary of his signature presidential achievement, the Affordable Care Act.

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Administration extends public health emergency for 90 days

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Wednesday renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, just ahead of its April 16 expiration date, providing an extension of pandemic policies and flexibilities for the health care industry.

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Administration extends public health emergency for 90 days - Roll Call

The administration on Wednesday extended the COVID-19 public health emergency for another 90 days, until around mid July.

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Profit strategy: Psychiatric facilities prioritize out-of-state kids

South Carolina children who need immediate, around-the-clock psychiatric care risk being stranded for days — even weeks — waiting for help, only to be sent hundreds of miles away from home for treatment.

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With Congress gridlocked, advocates say it’s up to state and local lawmakers to protect the undocumented elderly

CHICAGO — Long ago, Veronica Ortega gave up hope that federal immigration reform would come and pave a path to citizenship for her and her husband.

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Millions in US may lose health insurance

The United States might see one of the steepest increases in the country’s uninsured rate in years

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Patients’ perilous monthslong waiting for medicaid coverage is a sign of what’s to come

Korra Elliott has tried to avoid seeing a doctor while waiting to get on Medicaid. She worries she can’t afford more bills without any insurance coverage. But in early March — five months, she said, after applying and with still no decision about her application — a suspected case of…

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Detroit's longtime problem with asthma is getting much worse

DETROIT — Shelia Bernard remembers the way asthma made her daughter wheeze, how a cold would turn so bad she'd have to take her to the hospital for breathing treatments.

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Social programs weak in many states with tough abortion laws

States with some of the nation’s strictest abortion laws are also some of the hardest places to have and raise a healthy child, especially for the poor

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Escaping an abortion desert isn’t as simple as crossing state lines

As states like Texas and Oklahoma restrict abortion access ahead of a pivotal Supreme Court decision, Americans are being forced to travel farther from home to access care. But leaving town to escape restrictive laws is neither an easy solution nor an equitable one.

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Obama advisor undercuts his return to WH

David Axelrod was a big booster of Obamacare, which has done little to prevent Big Pharma from price-gouging

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Biden-Obama: White House reunion to celebrate health law

The last time President Barack Obama was in the White House was on Jan. 20, 2017, when he left to escort his successor — bent on overturning “Obamacare” — to the U.S. Capitol to be inaugurated

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Tennessee offers to expand dental schools as Medicaid coverage stretches need

More than 600,000 additional Medicaid patients in Tennessee may soon be covered with comprehensive dental benefits under a proposal by Republican Gov. Bill Lee. But the state, one of the last to extend dental coverage to adults, is also trying to make sure those Medicaid enrollees can find dentists willing…

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Delays for autism diagnosis and treatment grew even longer during the pandemic

Wylie James Prescott, 3, had to wait more than a year after his autism diagnosis to begin behavioral therapy, even though research shows early treatment of autism can be crucial for children’s long-term development.

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Stacey Abrams leans into Medicaid expansion as new bid for governor begins

ATLANTA — When Stacey Abrams ran for governor in 2018, Brian Kemp's advisers worried that she'd carve a path to victory by pulling off a dual narrative of being both an icon of the left and a pragmatic consensus-builder to middle-of-the-road voters.

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Blue states enact new laws to create abortion havens

If the U.S. Supreme Court decides in June, as expected, that all states can limit abortions to the earliest stages of pregnancy or ban the procedure altogether, hundreds of thousands of Americans are likely to start traveling to states where abortion remains legal.

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Scott cuestionado en Fox sobre alza de impuestos y eliminación del Medicare y el Medicaid

Mar. 29—El senador Rick Scott fue cuestionado el domingo por el presentador de Fox News y ex reportero de Miami John Roberts sobre su recién estrenado plan "Rescue America".

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At a Tennessee crossroads, 2 pharmacies, a monkey and millions of pills

CELINA, Tenn. — It was about 1 a.m. on April 19, 2016, when a burglary alarm sounded at Dale Hollow Pharmacy in Celina, a tiny town in the rolling, wooded hills near the Kentucky border.

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Los retrasos en el diagnóstico y tratamiento del autismo aumentaron durante la pandemia

Wylie James Prescott, de 3 años, tuvo que esperar más de un año después de su diagnóstico de autismo para comenzar la terapia conductual, a pesar de que las investigaciones demuestran que el tratamiento temprano del autismo puede ser crucial para el desarrollo de los niños.

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'Ultimate control': In Kansas and Missouri, fights rage over the rules of political power

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For more than a century, Missouri residents have had the power to bypass the General Assembly and pass laws — including amendments to the state constitution — through a vote.

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Commentary: The IRS doesn’t need more workers, it needs less work

Tax day is approaching, and a shorthanded Internal Revenue Service just got a $675 million boost (6%) from Congress and the president. But money won’t fix this problem. We can solve it—and maybe some other problems—with tax reform.

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