The Latest Breaking News from Medicaid

Cost of living: A couple’s move from tent to apartment

As rents and homelessness rise in New Orleans, Jessica and Terry find a home -and new living challenges.

Al Jazeera · Oct 16, 2022

Health care looms in Georgia election even as voters move on to other issues

ATLANTA — Marcy Miller is worried about inflation. Every time she goes to her local Winn-Dixie on Saint Simons Island, she said, it seems prices have gone up yet again.

Tribune News Service · Oct 14, 2022

Doctors prescribe healthy meals to keep patients out of the hospital

Meals on Wheels had been delivering healthy meals to thousands of older adults in Portland, Oregon, for more than 50 years when a local hospital asked whether the group could cook similar meals for patients leaving the hospital after acute bouts of diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses.

Tribune News Service · Oct 13, 2022

Beto O’Rourke: Texas economy is successful but not because of Greg Abbott

DALLAS — The Texas economy is humming, but it’s not because of Gov. Greg Abbott — it’s in spite of him, Beto O’Rourke said Monday.

Tribune News Service · Oct 11, 2022

Warnock on Walker: ‘A disturbing pattern’

MACON, Ga. — As an abortion scandal rocks the campaign of Republican Herschel Walker, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock on Friday emphasized his support of abortion rights before a crowd in Middle Georgia.

Tribune News Service · Oct 7, 2022

Kentucky Medicaid program wins award for pandemic-era enrollment innovations

Kentucky Medicaid program wins award for pandemic-era enrollment innovations

WEKU · Oct 7, 2022

Why childbirth is so dangerous for many young teens

Laws banning abortion in many conservative U.S. states are expected to boost birth rates among adolescents, whose bodies often aren't built for safe childbirth, or for carrying a pregnancy to term.

WEKU · Oct 7, 2022

Medical debt sunk her credit. New changes from the credit reporting agencies won’t help

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — After a year of chemo and radiation, doctors told Penelope “Penny” Wingard in 2014 that her breast cancer was in remission. She’d been praying for this good news. But it also meant she no longer qualified for a program in her state that offers temporary Medicaid…

Tribune News Service · Oct 7, 2022

Commentary: We must secure the right to contraception

In late September, Michigan’s Republican attorney general nominee Matt DePerno erroneously compared the emergency contraceptive Plan B to fentanyl at a conference in Texas, suggesting his state should “ban the pill.” DePerno is not the first politician to propose limiting contraceptive access following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn…

Tribune News Service · Oct 7, 2022

No new taxes in 2023 county budget, but questions linger

A look under the hood raises some interesting issues, both promising and concerning.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 7, 2022