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medicaid
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How the ACA may be helping to close the ‘race gap’
Chris Flavelle of Bloomberg View points out an unheralded achievement of the Affordable Care Act: It’s narrowing the race gap…
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Time to take a look at local efforts to tackle health, poverty
Perhaps 2016 will be the year of the gap – tackling the issue of the working poor who fall between…
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States vary widely at providing better dental care to Medicaid adults
States across the country have shown progress in getting more Medicaid-eligible children into dental chairs in recent years. Meanwhile, poor…
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Will jobs beat ideology to spur Medicaid expansion in the South?
We’ve written extensively about Medicaid expansion and the impact on hospitals that have many low-income uninsured patients that would be…
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Finding fresh ways to report on Medicaid, changes in health care system
The Washington, D.C., chapter of AHCJ held an event about Medicaid in late October with Matt Salo, who leads the…
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Health Policy hasn’t negated demand for special event ‘megaclinics’
In an Oct. 13 story, Susan Abram informed readers of the Los Angeles Daily News that a city sports arena…
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Atlanta journalist finds one series leads to another … and another … and another
Cover health care, or any beat, long enough and most journalists will discover that one story leads naturally to another.…
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Data raises questions: Is health exchange churn an affordability challenge, or the result of a new job?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported this fall that the number of people covered – that is,…
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Community health centers often fail to provide easy access to oral care
Locating both dental and medical providers at a community health center can better ensure that low-income patients get the oral…
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Dental care rates improve for children with public coverage but gaps persist, study says
More American children are obtaining dental services now than a decade ago. What’s more, a longstanding gap in dental visits…