Health insurers promise to improve coverage reviews that prompt delays and complaints
The nation's major health insurers are promising to scale back and improve a widely despised practice that leads to care delays and complications.
Jun 23, 2025
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Health Care Economics and Organizations: News and Research on Medicaid
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Study finds treatment among women with drug use disorder increases with access to social safety net programs
Women with drug use disorder (DUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD) are more likely to receive treatment when enrolled in Medicaid alongside other government assistance programs such as childcare, employment services, and SNAP ...
Jun 18, 2025
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Potential Medicaid cuts could lead to more than 16,500 medically-preventable deaths each year
A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine estimates the potential effects on Medicaid enrollment, uninsurance, financial strain, health care access, and health outcomes from potential Medicaid budget cuts being ...
Jun 16, 2025
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US health care is rife with high costs and deep inequities—how the system was shaped to serve profit and politicians
A few years ago, a student in my history of public health course asked why her mother couldn't afford insulin without insurance, despite having a full-time job. I told her what I've come to believe: The U.S. health care system ...
Jun 9, 2025
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Q&A: What proposed Medicaid cuts could mean for rural communities and hospital access
Major cuts to Medicaid funding could have rural communities across the country facing widespread hospital closures and reduced access to health care, says Michael Shepherd, a health policy researcher at the University of ...
Jun 5, 2025
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Native Americans hurt by federal health cuts, despite RFK Jr.'s promises of protection
Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government's top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the morning sun grew too hot.
Jun 5, 2025
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In Arizona county that backed Trump, conflicted feelings about cutting Medicaid
Like many residents of this copper-mining town in the mountains east of Phoenix, Debbie Cox knows plenty of people on Medicaid.
Jun 2, 2025
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There's no evidence work requirements for Medicaid recipients will boost employment
Republicans in the U.S. Senate are sparring over their version of the multitrillion-dollar budget and immigration bill the House of Representatives passed on May 22, 2025.
May 29, 2025
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Housing, nutrition in peril as Trump pulls back Medicaid social services
During his first administration, President Donald Trump's top health officials gave North Carolina permission to use Medicaid money for social services not traditionally covered by health insurance. It was a first-in-the-nation ...
May 21, 2025
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Californians receiving in-home care fear Medicaid cuts will spell end to independent living
For more than 50 years, low-income seniors and disabled people have been able to stay in their California homes—and out of more costly nursing facilities—with help from government-paid aides. But in their latest bid to renew ...
May 19, 2025
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