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May 17, 2017

Aging at Home Will Be Harder With Medicaid Cuts

In 2012, Ti Randall of New York City, who has Alzheimer’s disease, had run out of savings. His Social Security and a veteran’s pension helped cover his basic living expenses. But it took Medicaid to provide Randall with other services he needed in order to remain at home. “He needed companionship and assistance,” says Ann […]

Filed Under: Medicaid

March 30, 2017

Disabled, or just desperate?

BEAVERTON, ALA. The lobby at the pain-management clinic had become crowded with patients, so relatives had gone outside to their trucks to wait, and here, too, sat Desmond Spencer, smoking a 9 a.m. cigarette and watching the door. He tried stretching out his right leg, knowing these waits can take hours, and winced. He couldn’t sit […]

Filed Under: Inequality, Medicaid

March 28, 2017

How to Save Obamacare From Trump

This past weekend, liberals across the country celebrated the demise of the American Health Care Act as a triumph of Obamacare over the reactionary forces determined to tear it down, and rightly so. The Republican Party’s failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act outright is not just a huge relief to those who believe in […]

Filed Under: Health Care Policy and Reform, Medicaid

March 27, 2017

The Health-Care Bill Embraces the GOP’s Scariest State-Level Experiments

n June 2015, I wrote about RaDonna Kuelkelhan, a 59-year-old woman from southeast Kansas who was fighting to get health care. A treatment for larynx cancer caused a series of collateral problems that made it hard for RaDonna to eat. Her doctor was unable to treat the problem aggressively because she had no insurance, so […]

Filed Under: Medicaid

March 25, 2017

With Medicaid Costs Soaring, Republicans Plan Dramatic Eligibility Changes

It’s hard to predict precisely how the puzzle pieces will eventually fall. Yet Republicans made it clear last week that – one way or another – the 52-year-old Medicaid program for the poor and disabled is headed for significant changes in the coming year. Although President Trump promised during the campaign that he would protect […]

Filed Under: Medicaid

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