Health Law Shows Little Effect In Lowering Children’s Uninsured Rate, Study Finds
Yet many uninsured kids would be eligible for coverage under Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program.
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Yet many uninsured kids would be eligible for coverage under Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Health and social spending as measured by the Census Bureau grew by only 3.7 percent from the second quarter of 2013 to the same quarter of 2014.
Kaiser Health News consumer columnist Michelle Andrews answers readers' questions.
In one Olympic Peninsula community, a clinic turns away 250 callers a week.
Gov. LePage's decision to shrink, rather than expand, Medicaid has put strains on health providers as well as the poor.
State taxpayers could spend more than $10 billion by 2022 to provide medical coverage for low-income residents of other states while getting nothing in return.
Call center wait times climb even as the application backlog mounts and the state reports the single largest monthly drop in Medicaid enrollment in June.
An agency that ministers to immigrant and Arab-American community in Dearborn, Michigan, faces challenges enrolling some people in health coverage.
Jackson Health System offers free and reduced-cost treatment for those who qualify, but advocacy groups complain it fails to meet requirements for charity care.
Freestanding emergency departments have been proposed in Georgia as a potential solution for struggling rural hospitals.
The state has one of the largest numbers of children who are Medicaid-eligible but still uninsured.
Consumers in most other states have more information about, and control over, health insurance prices and plans.
Some fear helping some people with their bills might keep them from getting government-subsidized insurance plans.
Emergency-room visits have increased at many hospitals. A shortage of primary-care doctors is one reason.
After signing up hundreds of thousands of Medi-Cal enrollees, the state now needs to figure out how to care for them.
But insurers oppose many of the premium assistance efforts, saying they would lead to sicker enrollees who will raise costs for everyone.
Vermont plays the maverick again in trying to be the first state to implement a single-payer health care system.
With many of their patients now insured under the law, most W. Va. free clinics are choosing to get paid by Medicaid.
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, created its own Medicaid program for 28,000 residents. So far, E.R. visits have dropped 60 percent.
Ballerinas risk injury and high health care costs every time they perform. Allynne Noelle, 32, principal ballerina with the Los Angeles Ballet, says the new health care law offers some relief.
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