Michael Ollove, Stateline

Not Expanding Medicaid Can Cost Local Taxpayers

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Property owners in Dallas County, Texas, paid more than $467 million in taxes last year to Parkland Health and Hospital System, the county’s only public hospital, to provide medical care to the poor and uninsured. If Texas had expanded Medicaid, that amount would have been lower.

15 States Extend Health Law’s Higher Medicaid Payments To Doctors

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The health law temporarily paid doctors more to handle the expected influx of patients when states expanded their Medicaid programs and some states are continuing that program because they find it has helped attract providers to the program.

Advocates And Experts Debate Need For More Regulation Of Fertility Services

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A new Utah law allowing children conceived via sperm donation to see the medical histories of their fathers is seen as an exception to otherwise light regulation of assisted reproductive technology in states.

Nearly 4 Million Seriously Mentally Ill Still Without Insurance

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In states that agreed to expand Medicaid, about 3 million people who have those conditions are now eligible for coverage, however the 24 states that refused the Medicaid expansion have nearly millions with severe mental illness without insurance.