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There may be a way for 1 million below-poverty-level uninsured Floridians to gain access to health coverage, even though the state legislature voted…
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Bariatric surgery has a good track record in combating the health risks of obesity. But new health exchanges in Mississippi and other Southern states won't pay for it, even though those states have some of the nation's highest rates of obesity.
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At 7 a.m. on a Monday morning, poor people who don’t qualify for government health programs such as Medicaid are lined up outside a health department…
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Arkansas' state legislature passed a model plan to expand Medicaid last week, even though its Legislature is dominated by Republicans and the measure had…
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State Sen. Joe Negron's Healthy Florida plan, which would use federal funds to cover low-income uninsured, has run into a wall:the Florida House. Rather…
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Republicans who control the Florida House hint they're about to unveil their version of a health plan for the state's low-income uninsured between now and…
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The only way to keep premiums from soaring is to make sure that healthy people sign up for coverage as quickly as sick people do. But in states like…
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Steve Bousquet of the Tampa Bay Times questions Gov. Rick Scott’s use of “conscience” in talking about expanding Medicaid to uninsured Floridians, since…
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An article in Mother Jones magazine describes how uninsured people in Orlando line up each evening in hopes of seeing a doctor at a free clinic. This…