Effort to expand Medicaid is struggling in Republican-led Mississippi
Mississippi is one of the poorest states and has some of the worst health outcomes. Some business leaders, clergy members and ...
Missouri Senate filibuster ends with vote on multibillion-dollar Medicaid program
A dayslong filibuster in the Missouri Senate has ended. Senators gave initial approval in a voice vote Thursday to a $4 ...
Filibuster against $4B Missouri Medicaid bill ends
A dayslong filibuster ended Thursday in the Missouri Senate after Republicans allowed a vote on a Medicaid program worth over ...
Missouri Capitol grinds to a halt as hard-right senators block billions for Medicaid
A chorus of Missouri health care groups and the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the senators were “endangering ...
New Alabama budget increases spending on prisons, Medicaid, mental health
The budget allocates $736 million to the Alabama Department of Corrections, a $75 million increase over this year.
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4 Million Fewer Kids Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP in Wake of 'Unwinding'
A total of 4.16 million fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at the end ...
More than 2 million Texans have been dropped from Medicaid, leading the nation
A third of Texans signed up for Medicaid in March of last year have since lost coverage following the end of pandemic-era ...
Many states are eager to extend Medicaid to people soon to be released from prison
A new policy that allows states to provide Medicaid health care coverage to incarcerated people at least a month prior to ...
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From dummy bill to Hail Marys: How Mississippi’s Medicaid expansion efforts failed
Though it looked promising from the start, here's the story of how the legislative effort to expand Medicaid in Mississippi failed.