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Teresa Martinez, 62, from East Los Angeles makes $10,000 a year working as a hairdresser in a Koreatown salon. With her modest income she is likely to be eligible for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act's Medi-Cal expansion.
About 800,000 people in California are presumed to be eligible for the newly expanded program but lack final approval. For a Los Angeles hairdresser and others like her, that means medical appointments are on hold.
One of the most successful initiatives in the Affordable Care Act has been the effort to sign up patients to be covered by Medicaid under an expanded program. Now comes the hard part: facing up to challenges brought on by having so many more people in the program.
Some of Missouri's working poor have had no dental coverage since benefits were cut in 2005.
With a climate especially bad for asthmatics, Missouri has been a pioneer in fighting the disease.
The former governor has been meeting with legislators, some of whom weren't born when he first came to Jefferson City as state auditor in 1970.
As the first open enrollment period draws to a close, here are seven things to watch for clues about what the health law's future might hold.
But the number of enrollees, especially those between 18 and 34, continues to lag expectations.
Nursing home oversight may be moving toward more effective ways to detect poor care.
Each of the states currently weighing expansion of Medicaid has a different idea of what it would look like.
The price tag of the breakthrough treatment raises questions about the proper costs of pharmaceuticals.
Proponents of expanding Medicaid in Florida argue that a 'no' vote means that legal immigrants will have access to insurance subsidies while some U.S. citizens go without coverage.
The first public evaluation of how 141 networks of doctors and hospitals performed looks at five quality measures for patients with diabetes and heart disease.
Shifting Medicaid enrollees into private plans could mean less money for clinics treating the poor.
The plan by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett would use federal money to buy private insurance for newly eligible Medicaid enrollees and require work searches or job training.
A Republican House member has filed a bill to expand Missouri's Medicaid program.
Patients face serious challenges, however, including a shortage of dentists and restrictions on treatment options.
Plan seeks to close gaps for more than 30,000 kids in the state's child welfare system.
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration's Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Map shows there are 31,600 children eligible for the new specialty plan designed for those in the child welfare system across 11 regions.
Insurers say that safety is their No.1 concern, but consumer advocates and nursing home owners are wary.
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