• Paul Ryan South:Florida Anti-Medicaid Republican's brother's medical bills covered under...you guessed it: Medicaid http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/weatherfords-dad-proven-right-that-medicaid-covered-medical-bills/2107399 20 comments 9/3/2013 politics
• Judge: West Virginia Medicaid must cover transgender care https://apnews.com/article/health-lawsuits-gay-rights-medicaid-0d01a4516d41d7ed79a12b65fa979def 15 comments 3/8/2022 politics
• Medicare and Medicaid to cover early Covid vaccine https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/medicare-medicaid-cover-covid-vaccine-432726 14 comments 27/10/2020 politics
• 300,000 Virginians newly covered through Medicaid expansion https://www.apnews.com/ee6dc40c4f8b4f7cb6b4735344db008a 23 comments 4/8/2019 politics
• Iowa Supreme Court rules that Medicaid can cover sex reassignment surgery https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/iowa-supreme-court-rules-medicaid-can-cover-sex-reassignment-surgery-n981166?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=iwar3ozpudooklyhkqhhvo10s4r8xdztwbnwgndy_2jyefkhq25_fqbcoqxze 51 comments 18/3/2019 politics
• Iowa Supreme Court rules state's Medicaid program must cover sex reassignment surgery https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/433244-iowa-supreme-court-rules-states-medicaid-program-must-cover-sex 15 comments 8/3/2019 politics
• Republicans say Medicaid is ‘broken.’ Here’s how the people it covers feel. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/10/republicans-say-medicaid-is-broken-heres-how-the-people-it-covers-feel/ 11 comments 10/7/2017 politics
• Are Republicans Just Using Obamacare Repeal As Cover For Gutting Medicaid? http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/obamacare-repeal-medicaid-trojan-horse 18 comments 16/3/2017 politics
• Michigan Insurers Cover Coronavirus Tests; Gov. Whitmer Announces Medicaid Copays Waived https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2020/03/06/coronavirus-covid-19-tests-michigan-insurers-medicaid-fees-waived/4983401002/ 12 comments 7/3/2020 politics
• Iowa may soon stop covering transgender care through Medicaid https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/05/iowa-may-soon-stop-covering-transgender-care-medicaid/ 12 comments 1/5/2019 politics
• Stupid Medicaid tricks: Utah figures out how to spend more to cover fewer people https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-utah-medicaid-20190213-story.html 14 comments 16/2/2019 politics
• Iowa court rules in favor of transgender women, strikes down Medicaid ban on covering surgery https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/391277-iowa-court-strikes-down-medicaid-ban-on-covering-transgender 3 comments 8/6/2018 politics
• Iowa court rules in favor of transgender women, strikes down Medicaid ban on covering surgery http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/391277-iowa-court-strikes-down-medicaid-ban-on-covering-transgender 20 comments 8/6/2018 politics
• Mom lost work insurance, now on Medicaid. 14 year old brother and I are not covered anymore. Now what? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6rmfwc/mom_lost_work_insurance_now_on_medicaid_14_year/ 18 comments 4/8/2017 personalfinance
• Report: Almost 4 million with mental illness won’t be covered in states that don’t expand Medicaid http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/02/27/report-almost-4-million-with-mental-illness-wont-be-covered-in-states-that-dont-expand-medicaid/ 103 comments 19/4/2014 politics
• Just Hours after beginning the 30 day comment period Medicaid Has Withdrawn It's Proposal To Cover Sexual Reassignment Surgery for Transgender people http://planetransgender.blogspot.com/2013/03/medicaid-has-withdrawn-its-proposal-to.html 20 comments 30/3/2013 politics
• North Carolina Expands Medicaid After Republicans Abandon Their Opposition: "State officials say the expansion will cover an estimated 600,000 people." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/us/politics/north-carolina-medicaid-expansion.html 321 comments 28/3/2023 upliftingnews
• Republican state House speaker backs expanding Medicaid to cover mothers for a year after they give birth https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/06/texas-maternal-medicaid/ 5 comments 7/4/2021 politics
• Kansas just reached a deal to expand Medicaid, covering 150,000 people https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/9/21058531/kansas-medicaid-expansion-obamacare-trump 5 comments 10/1/2020 politics
• Kansas just reached a deal to expand Medicaid, covering 150,000 people https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2020/1/9/21058531/kansas-medicaid-expansion-obamacare-trump 13 comments 9/1/2020 politics
• Medicaid expansion may cover birth control for thousands more Utah women. Unwanted pregnancies, abortions will decrease, advocates say. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/04/15/medicaid-expansion-may/ 34 comments 18/4/2019 politics
• Assembly Passes Bill To Make California First State To Cover Undocumented Immigrants Under Medicaid https://californiahealthline.org/morning-breakout/assembly-passes-bill-to-make-california-first-state-to-cover-undocumented-immigrants-under-medicaid/ 3 comments 4/6/2018 worldnews
• Medicaid Now Covers a Million Fewer Children — The uninsured rate for children is climbing as families run afoul of new paperwork from states and as fear rises among immigrants. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/upshot/medicaid-uninsured-children.html 14 comments 22/10/2019 politics
• Children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/health/12medicaid.html?_r=1&em 144 comments 12/12/2009 science
• Bundled with Obama's Executive Orders on Guns is a Call for a National Dialogue On Mental Health and Clarifications on What Mental Health Services Medicaid must cover. http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/01/16/read_president_obama_s_new_proposed_executive_orders_and_legislation_on.html 3 comments 16/1/2013 politics
• IA Supreme Court just heard oral arguments on whether Iowa Medicaid should be required to cover sex reassignment surgeries in cases of gender dysphoria https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/01/24/iowa-supreme-court-transgender-medicaid-ban-health-care-civil-rights-surgery-lgbtq-aclu-gender-ia/2658759002/ 7 comments 25/1/2019 law
• How to Fix Health Care Without the Mandate: Seventy percent of Americans favor expanding Medicaid to cover more uninsured adults http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10014-how-to-fix-health-care-without-the-mandate 4 comments 27/6/2012 politics
• The Trump Administration Cracked Down on Medicaid. Kids Lost Insurance. - One million children across the country are no longer covered by Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. https://truthout.org/articles/the-trump-administration-cracked-down-on-medicaid-kids-lost-insurance/ 53 comments 2/11/2019 politics
• Medicaid Will Now Cover Abortion for Low-Income Women in Illinois. Take That, Hyde! | American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom/abortion/medicaid-will-now-cover-abortion-low-income-women-illinois-take 22 comments 2/10/2017 politics
• Medicaid stops covering $2,500/month life saving med for kids with Type 1 diabetes. Republican Mississippi State Rep Jeffrey Guice tells concerned mom: HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT BUYING THE SUPPLIES WITH MONEY THAT YOU EARN" http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/jackson-county/article86416087.html 12 comments 29/6/2016 politics
• Florida Struggles to Pay the Tab for Rejecting Obamacare Governor Rick Scott and conservative state lawmakers are finding that it’s not so easy to cover the poor without expanding Medicaid. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/florida-struggles-to-pay-the-tab-for-rejecting-obamacare/392678/ 383 comments 8/5/2015 politics
• Millions of Americans "have only one plan for covering long-term health care costs. It's to spend themselves into poverty until Medicaid -- the state-run health-care program for the poor -- picks up the tab." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-09/stalking-the-silent-financial-killer-in-our-midst.html 135 comments 20/4/2013 politics
• Under the law, Medicaid will expand in 2014 to cover anyone earning up to 138 percent of the poverty level, or about $31,000 for a family of four. http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2012/june/17/uninsured-tennessee-clinic-supreme-court-health-law.aspx 18 comments 17/6/2012 politics
• Biden officials rescind Trump’s OK for Texas’ $100-billion-plus Medicaid plan - Friday decision is seen as an effort to push Texas officials toward expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to cover more low-income residents. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/16/biden-rejects-texas-medicaid-plan/ 3 comments 16/4/2021 politics
• Missouri voters OK Medicaid expansion to cover more low-income adults, defying GOP leaders https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/08/05/amendment-2-missouri-medicaid-expansion-passed/3302715001/ 12 comments 5/8/2020 politics
• A new study suggests that more low-income adults quit smoking covered by the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) than those who were not insured through ACA because they lived in a state that did not offer Medicaid expansion. https://saludmovil.com/study-finds-more-people-quit-smoking-under-aca/ 3 comments 17/11/2017 science
• Having Medicaid increases emergency room visits: Adults who are covered by Medicaid use emergency rooms 40 percent more than those in similar circumstances who do not have health insurance, according to a unique new study that sheds empirical light on the inner workings of health care in the U.S. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/study-having-medicaid-increases-emergency-room-visits.html 11 comments 6/1/2014 science
• Republican vs. Republican on covering uninsured. Sister Carol Keehan tried to persuade a Ohio GOP legislator to support Medicaid expansion, says the lawmaker told her the uninsured could go to community health fairs for medical care. "They can get their blood pressures taken at the fire station." http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/republican-vs-republican-on-covering-uninsured-4568217.php 239 comments 1/6/2013 politics
• How a single-payer healthcare system would save billions on administrative costs and monopoly profits, cover the uninsured, increase the provision of needed services like dental and home health care, improve Medicaid reimbursements, AND increase disposable income for all but the top 5%. http://www.pnhp.org/sites/default/files/docs/2012/dollars%20and%20sense.pdf 898 comments 7/5/2013 politics
• Dying Poor People & Jindal’s Priorities - What kind of “sanctity of life” party ethic values maintaining state tax breaks for corporations while eliminating all hospice care – both at home and in nursing facilities — to people covered by Medicaid? http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/hospice-louisiana-jindal-christmas/ 24 comments 22/12/2012 politics