Survey: Millions More Californians Insured After Obamacare Launch, Medicaid Expansion
But the remaining uninsured are tough to reach.
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But the remaining uninsured are tough to reach.
By Aug. 1, Republican Gov. Matt Bevin is expected to ask the Obama administration to approve significant changes on many Medicaid enrollees, including monthly premiums and a work requirement.
As governor of Indiana, Mike Pence expanded Medicaid with conservative tweaks, responded to an HIV outbreak with a limited needle-exchange program and signed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.
Enrollment is nearly double where the state expected to be at the seven-month mark.
Even as the administration focuses on getting more young adults into marketplace coverage, many enrollment specialists say that this group has some difficulty transitioning from family plans or Medicaid.
Louisiana鈥檚 decision to accept the federal health law program to provide coverage to more low-income residents is being watched around the South, including in Georgia, where deep-seated opposition is showing some small signs of cracks.
More emerging prisoners are covered by Medicaid, but they still face barriers in navigating the health system, researchers said.
Residents of California, New York and Ohio approve of Medicaid expansion in those states, the survey by a Houston-based think tank found.
Maryland proposes an innovative program to temporarily enroll former inmates in Medicaid with few questions asked.
Maryland鈥檚 prisons and jails release thousands of inmates each year without helping them enroll in Medicaid, jeopardizing their health and putting communities at greater risk.
The unusual strategy helped the governor get around a small group of Republican senators who threatened to cancel the expansion, which has brought coverage to more than 267,000 state residents.
A reader asks if it鈥檚 fair for his health plan to classify his son鈥檚 treatment by a psychologist as specialty care that requires a higher copayment.
New Hampshire has one of the highest opioid overdose rates and one of the lowest rates of access to treatment.
The novel expansion model is testing how far a state can go under Obamacare in making poor people share responsibility for the cost of health care.聽
Since its rollout on Jan. 1, Montana Medicaid expansion has enrolled more than 38,000 people and returned $3 million to the state's general fund.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson says HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell 鈥渁ccepts the framework鈥 of his proposals but negotiations are continuing.
As officials seek to take control of costs in the health coverage for low-income residents, they are relying on hospitals, not private insurance companies, to run the program.
Candidates -- on both sides -- are bending the facts about the Affordable Care Act.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson will meet with federal officials to negotiate the future of the state鈥檚 Medicaid expansion program, which leading Republicans say could be killed if it鈥檚 not changed.
Forty-nine states now take Medicaid applications by phone and 49 also accept online applications, reports the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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