Tag: Medicaid
After End of Pandemic Coverage Guarantee, Texas Is Epicenter of Medicaid Losses
Juliette Vasquez gave birth to her daughter in June with the help of Medicaid, which she said had covered the prenatal medications and checkups that k [...]
Medicaid health insurance renewals result in millions of people cut
Supporters hold up Save Medicaid signs during the Senate Democrats' news conference at the Capitol with disability advocates to oppose the Republicans [...]
Hundreds of Thousands Have Lost Medicaid Coverage Since Pandemic Protections Expired
Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans have lost Medicaid coverage in recent weeks as part of a sprawling unwinding of a pandemic-era policy th [...]
Will North Carolina Be the ‘Beginning of the End’ of the Medicaid Expansion Fight?
Intense patient advocacy, shifting politics, a determined Democratic governor and a handful of maverick Republicans led the state to join 39 others th [...]
Millions on Medicaid May Soon Lose Coverage as Pandemic Protections End
A requirement that states keep people on Medicaid during the coronavirus pandemic has come to an end, and 15 million people could lose their coverage [...]
In Mississippi, a Choice to Forgo Medicaid Funds Is Killing Hospitals
Mississippi is one of 10 states, all with Republican-led legislatures, that continue to reject federal funding to expand health insurance for the poor [...]
North Carolina Expands Medicaid After Republicans Abandon Their Opposition
The state’s Democratic governor signed a bill expanding the health insurance program for low-income people days after the measure cleared the Republic [...]
When US hospitals go private, Medicaid patients lose health care access
Over the past four decades, US hospitals have gradually moved from public hands to private ones. The share of hospitals owned and operated by a gov [...]
South Dakota election results 2022: Medicaid expansion ballot initiative passes
Medicaid expansion has extended its extraordinary winning streak at the ballot box in South Dakota.
Six times before this Election Day, voters in a [...]
South Dakota midterm results 2022: Medicaid expansion ballot initiative passes
Medicaid expansion has extended its extraordinary winning streak at the ballot box in South Dakota.
Six times before this Election Day, voters in a [...]
The Supreme Court appeared reluctant to destroy Medicaid in Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski
Most of the Supreme Court justices appeared unlikely to embrace a truly outlandish legal argument presented to them on Tuesday, which could have gu [...]
Midterm elections 2022: 9 ballot measures to watching, including marijuana, minimum wage, and Medicaid
Filling out a ballot stuffed with granular, detailed policy measures can be enough to make a voter appreciate representative democracy, in which so [...]
Voters Have Expanded Medicaid in 6 States. Is South Dakota Next?
Ten years after the Supreme Court ruled that states did not have to expand Medicaid, the politics are changing in states like South Dakota, where rura [...]
The nightmarish Supreme Court case that could gut Medicaid: Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski
On Tuesday, as millions of Americans cast their ballots in the 2022 midterms, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in what could be one of th [...]
Medicaid expansion could win again with South Dakota’s ballot initiative
Six times since 2017, voters in a state have weighed in directly on whether to expand Medicaid and make more low-income adults eligible for free pu [...]