SHOCKING: 5 - What They Never Told You

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.

Tribune News Service · Apr 12, 2022

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

Salon · Apr 9, 2022

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…

Tribune News Service · Apr 9, 2022

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

The Independent UK · Apr 5, 2022

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…

Tribune News Service · Apr 4, 2022

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.

Tribune News Service · Apr 3, 2022

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.

Tribune News Service · Apr 3, 2022

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.

Tribune News Service · Apr 3, 2022

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".

Tribune News Service · Apr 1, 2022

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.

Tribune News Service · Apr 1, 2022