Medical Debt Far Bigger Than Previously Known, Especially In States Not Expanding Medicaid

 Americans Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140 Billion by Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz.  The New York Times.  July 20, 2021.  

Georgia To Challenge Revocation Of Medicaid Waiver/Georgia Medicaid Eligible For Up To $700 Million Under New Incentives

 Georgia Vows To Continue Fight If Feds Kill Medicaid Waiver Plan by Andy Miller.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  March 17, 2021.  

Rural Health Care Unprepared For COVIC Outbreak

How Are You Gonna Pay For That?  Crisis Leaves Rural Health Care Unprepared For COVID Outbreak by Josh Kovensky.  Talkingpointsmemo.  March 6, 2020.

Study: The US Could Have Averted About 15,600 Deaths If Every State Expanded Medicaid

Study:  The US Could Have Averted About 15,600 Deaths If Every State Expanded Medicaid by Tara Golshan.  Vox.  July 23, 2019. 

Who Is Responsible For Rural Medical Misery?

Self-Inflicted Medical Misery by Paul Krugman.  The New York Times.  June 24, 2019. 

Georgia Lawmakers Approve Kemp's Plan For Medicaid, Obamacare Waivers

Georgia Lawmakers Approve Kemp's Plan To Medicaid, Obamacare Waivers by Greg Bluestein And Ariel Hart. AJC.   March 25, 2019. 

Alarm As Rural Hospitals Continue To Close In States That Refuse Medicaid Expansion

A Sense Of Alarm As Rural Hospitals Keep Closing by Austin Frakt.  The New York Times.  October 29, 2018. 

Stacey Abrams Hope Medicaid Expansion Can Be A winning Issue In Rural Georgia

Stacey Abrams Hopes Medicaid Expansion Can Be A Winning Issue In Rural Georgia by Abby Goodnough.  The New York Times.  October 20, 2018. 

Medicaid: Is It Medical Assistance Or Is It Welfare?

Judge Strikes Down Kentucky's Medicaid Work Rules by Abby Goodnough.  The New York Times.  June 29, 2018. 

Medicaid Expansion: Does It Provide Adequate Care For More Americans

Finally, Some Answers On The Effects Of Medicaid Expansion by Aaron E. Carroll.  The New York Times.  July 2, 2018. 

Medicaid Work Requirements Will Not Necessarily Lead To Jobs; May Increase Costs

Medicaid Work Requirements Could Cost The Government More In The Long Run by Diane Dewar.  The Conversation.  January 23, 2018. 

How HHS Secretary Hopes To Trend The Political Needle

The Health 202:  Azar Tells Staff Trump Wants 'Big And Bold' Health Care Changes by Paige Winfield Cunningham.  The Washington Post.  March 28. 

Amazon Offers Prime Discount To Medicaid Recipients

Amazon Offers Prime Discount For Medicaid Recipients by Nick Wingfield.  The New York Times.  March 7, 2018. 

Dental Inequality: Health, Job, Medicaid Impacts

How Dental Inequality Hurts Americans by Austin Frakt.  The New York Times.  February 19, 2018. 

Medicaid Transportation At Risk With State Waivers

No Car, No Care?  Medicaid Transportation At Risk In Some States by JoNel Aleccia.  Kaiser Health News.  January 30, 2018. 

Making Medicaid A Tool For Moral Education May Let Some Die

Making Medicaid A Tool For Moral Education May Let Some Die by Eduardo Porter.  The New York Times.  January 16, 2017.

Work To Be Healthy Or Healthy To Be Able To Work? A Kentucky Medicaid Experiment

To Get Medicaid In Kentucky, Many Will Have To Work.  Advocates For The Poor Say They Will Sue.  by Abby Goodnough.  January 12, 2017. 

Maine Voted To Expand Medicaid; Governor Stands In The Way

Last Night, Maine Voted To Expand Medicaid.  Today Maine's Governor Says He Won't Do It by Jordan Weissmann.  Slate.  November 8, 2017. 

Medicaid Expansion On The Ballot In Maine

The Governor Blocked Medicaid Expansion.  Now Maine Voters Could Overrule Him.  by Abby Goodnough.  The New York Times.  October 27, 2017. 

"Medicaid For All Who Are Into That Sort Of Thing"

Democrats' New Health-Care Plan:  Medicaid For All (Who Want It) by Eric Levitz. New York Magazine.  August 22, 2017.