April 23: Texas House votes down budget amendment aimed at giving health coverage to more uninsured Texans: The Texas Legislature has declined to pass any broad expansion of state and federal health care coverage for uninsured Texans since the Affordable … Read More
A study published this week in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry concluded that low-income individuals who received dental care under Medicaid expansion in Michigan had improved job outcomes as a result of better oral health. The paper entitled “Beneficiaries’ … Read More
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Just over 300,000 low-income Virginia adults have enrolled in the state’s expanded Medicaid program. Gov. Ralph Northam made the announcement Wednesday at a health center in Alexandria. State officials have previously estimated that roughly 400,000 adults … Read More
Republican lawmakers in Florida and Texas snubbed the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion for adults, but their states did broaden the program this year — for school-age children. Those states were among 21 – including some big Democratic-led states, such … Read More
