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Vital Signs
States refusing Medicaid expansion leave 5.2M poor people without coverage, lose out on $555M
By Harris Meyer | October 16, 2013
Two new studies highlight the heavy impact that state decisions not to expand Medicaid under the federal healthcare reform law will have on low-income Americans and community health centers that serve them.
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Law of the land | Bumpy start to exchanges no surprise, but some opponents' tactics outrageous
By Henry Aaron | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Unfortunately, some opponents of healthcare reform are behaving outrageously. They are actively trying to make the law fail.
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Information
States resist, build nascent insurance markets
By Emery Dalesio / Associated Press | September 29, 2013
With new online health insurance exchanges set to launch Tuesday, consumers in many Southern and Plains states will have to look harder for information on how the marketplaces work than their counterparts elsewhere.
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Details elusive as Mo. awaits healthcare overhaul
By Alan Scher Zagier / Associated Press | September 15, 2013
The St. Louis Public Library auditorium was filled with a cross-section of city residents: college students, small-business owners, church volunteers, working parents, the unemployed, retirees and more.
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Critical debate | Proposal to strip critical-access status from two-thirds of those hospitals called a death knell for many
By Joe Carlson | August 17, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The Obama administration and several federal agencies have proposed reining in the Medicare critical-access program. That has triggered widespread outrage and fear among critical-access hospital officials and their trade-industry spokespeople.
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Providers protest rule putting them at financial risk if patients don't pay premiums
By Jonathan Block | August 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Provider groups say a CMS rule interpreting the healthcare reform law that gives consumers a grace period for unpaid health insurance premiums will put them at significant financial risk.
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Delta states get $5.4M in grants to target chronic disease
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 12, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A dozen providers in a low-income part of the country will receive $5.4 million in federal funding to address a number of chronic conditions that affect residents there at a more frequent rate compared with the rest of the country.
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Reform Update: Medicaid, CHIP could gain 18 million more enrollees if all states expanded programs, study says
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 06, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
While a new report estimates millions of people could be added to Medicaid and CHIP if all states expanded the programs under the ACA, several states have refused, leaving thousands without coverage.
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Missouri citizens face obstacles to coverage
By New York Times | August 03, 2013
Looking for the new health insurance marketplace, set to open in this state in two months, is like searching for a unicorn.
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Missouri panel urged to expand Medicaid
By Alan Scher Zagier ./ Associated Press | July 28, 2013
Cattle rancher Darvin Bentlage drove 400 miles roundtrip this weekend to put a human face on the contentious, confounding and convoluted debate over Medicaid expansion in Missouri.
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