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Black Americans in the South carry the largest share of medical debt. Advocates say Medicaid expansion can help.
Black Americans in the South hold an average of $532 in medical debt. Advocates say that's because …
DeArbea Walker
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We're getting closer to an effective COVID-19 vaccine. Here's what it will cost to get a shot.
Federal legislation and regulation has worked to ensure that most people get the vaccine for free o…
Shelby Livingston
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Top Trump official Seema Verma 'abused' government rules by spending $3.5 million in taxpayer money to boost her own profile, according to a congressional investigation
Verma hired a team of pricey consultants to boost her profile, rather than relying on hundreds of g…
Eliza Relman
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Bernie Sanders unveiled a plan to tax the 'obscene wealth gains' of billionaires during the pandemic
The generated revenue from the tax on billionaires would be used to guarantee Medicare to every Ame…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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A Las Vegas couple is accused of stealing $13 million from Medicaid to fund a lavish lifestyle that they bragged about on social media
Latisha and Mark Harron allegedly searched obituaries to charge Medicaid for home healthcare servic…
Connor Perrett
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BARCLAYS: These health insurers stand to profit the most from Medicaid expansion after Democrats' big election win
That'll be good news for health insurance companies that specialize in Medicaid, according to a Bar…
Charlotte Hu
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3 cash-strapped states are making deep cuts to Medicaid as coronavirus devastates their budgets — and millions of jobless people lack health insurance
States are scaling back their Medicaid spending as demand for the health insurance program grows wi…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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COVID-19 will devastate Mississippi's African-American community
Rather than addressing the state's long-standing racial and economy inequities, its leaders are dra…
W. Ralph Eubanks
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The Trump administration will now allow states to require people on Medicaid to have a job
"Liberals find Medicaid work requirements repugnant because they believe that Medicaid beneficiarie…
Bob Bryan
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Mitch McConnell's call to cut Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid also perfectly laid out why it won't happen anytime soon
"In budget after budget, Congressional Republicans have exposed their cynical agenda: give massive,…
Bob Bryan
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Maine's governor is trying to block the state's Medicaid expansion the day after voters overwhelmingly supported it
"Credit agencies are predicting that this fiscally irresponsible Medicaid expansion will be ruinous…
Bob Bryan
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Americans hate Republicans' idea to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to bring down the soaring deficit. And they have another idea the GOP won't like.
While many GOP lawmakers and Trump administration officials have long advocated for cuts to entitle…
Bob Bryan
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The revised GOP healthcare plan is still a massive cut for the 69 million Americans on Medicaid
Medicaid is a joint program between states and the federal government. States manage their own prog…
Harrison Jacobs,Bob Bryan
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The Trump administration says Medicare and Medicaid might not cover all healthcare for coronavirus patients
It opens the door to the possibility that older Americans - a demographic at greater risk from coro…
Eliza Relman,Joseph Zeballos-…
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Medicaid's top doctor defied his department and came out against the GOP's Obamacare replacement
"Despite political messaging from others at HHS, I align with the experts from @aafp @AmerAcadPeds …
Lydia Ramsey
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Trump's proposed trillion-dollar cuts to Medicaid include a 'fundamental change' in how the program would operate
The possibility that Medicaid might change from an open-ended entitlement to block grants or per-ca…
Harrison Jacobs
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Trump's proposed trillion-dollar cuts to Medicaid are a stunning reversal from one of his biggest campaign promises
Pennsylvania was suffering a $600 million budget shortfall as of December that could reach $1.7 bil…
Harrison Jacobs
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Progressive challenger Cori Bush defeats 10-term incumbent Lacy Clay and voters approve Medicaid expansion in Missouri
The activist, nurse, and pastor Cori Bush defeated Clay in a stunning upset. The Clay family has re…
Oma Seddiq
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'Starvation wages': Walmart and McDonald's among firms with the most workers on food stamps and Medicaid, according to a Bernie Sanders-commissioned report
"Giant corporations pay starvation wages – wages so low their workers have to rely on Medicaid and …
Grace Dean
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EBT and Medicaid cardholders can get 50% off an Amazon Prime membership — here's how to sign up for the discount
Amazon is making its Prime membership more accessible by giving EBT and Medicaid cardholders 50% of…