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Could paid family caregivers alleviate the home health worker shortage?

by Alli Fam
Jan 3, 2022
Medicaid sometimes pays family members to provide in-home care for relatives. But the programs vary from state to state.
Jessica Aviles performs a mock examination of a patient on her last day of class at LNA Health Careers in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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California is reshaping Medicaid to bring new health services to families

by Mariana Dale
Dec 29, 2021
Community health workers present at doctor’s appointments can help parents navigate food, sleep, behavior and child development.
Developmental specialist Bella Lopez reads with 2-year-old Oliver Humphrey. She said the kids are often excited to see her at the doctor's office, in part because she's not the one giving shots.
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Expanding Medicaid to holdout states could add jobs beyond health care

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
May 21, 2021
When Michigan expanded the health coverage program for low-income people, it led to 30,000 new jobs in the state.
According to a new report, Medicaid expansion would create jobs in several industries. It would provide "a shot in the arm, at a point when [states are] trying to recover from the COVID pandemic,” researcher Leighton Ku said.
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Biden administration rolls back some Medicaid work requirement waivers

by Mitchell Hartman
Apr 8, 2021
The Trump administration had said states could require some people to prove they had work to get benefits.
President Biden at a White House press conference on April 6, 2021.
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COVID-19

COVID relief extends Medicaid's pregnancy health insurance benefit to a full year

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Mar 19, 2021
In the U.S., Black and Indigenous women are two to three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes in the first year as white women.
The American Rescue Plan allows states to extend pregnancy-based Medicaid to a full year of coverage.
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COVID-19

States scrambling with Medicaid enrollments climbing

by Erika Beras
Nov 30, 2020
Will a surge in enrollments prompted by the pandemic mean cuts to benefits?
Medical workers walk outside of a special coronavirus intake area at a hospital in Brooklyn earlier this year.
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How to find health care after a layoff in a pandemic

by David Brancaccio , Candace Manriquez Wrenn , Erika Soderstrom and Alex Schroeder
Oct 9, 2020
With the Affordable Care Act back in the spotlight, we break down the available options.
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Millions of newly unemployed Americans have lost health insurance, study finds

by David Brancaccio , Nova Safo and Alex Schroeder
Jul 14, 2020
More than 5 million people who lost their jobs lost their health insurance and didn’t find an alternative.
An ambulance sits in the emergency room bay of Lincoln Medical Center on April 16, 2020.
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More Americans are going without health insurance, census report says

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 10, 2019
Despite a strong a economy, the uninsured rate rose last year for the first time since Obamacare.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans going without health insurance rose last year for the first time this decade.
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Here's how it works if you're undocumented and need health care

by Andy Uhler
Jul 9, 2019
If a person without authorization to be in the U.S. can afford it, they can purchase nongovernment-subsidized insurance. But few jobs pay enough.
Medical students give a check-up to a Jamaican migrant worker on a H2A visa at a Connecticut apple orchard and farm on October 11, 2017 in Middlefield, Connecticut.
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