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It’s dangerous for Black women to give birth in Texas, and it could be about to get worse

Abortion bans and a looming Medicaid deadline could make a bad maternal health crisis worse. Will lawmakers act in time?

The Guardian - US

2 counties square off with California over mental health duties

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento and Solano counties are in a standoff with the state over mental health coverage for a portion of Medicaid patients in those counties — a dispute that threatens to disrupt care for nearly 50,000 low-income residents receiving treatment for severe mental illness.

Tribune News Service

Mississippi governor OKs longer postpartum Medicaid coverage

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed legislation to solidify a full year of Medicaid coverage for women after birth

The Independent UK

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OB-GYN workforce shortages could worsen maternal health crisis

WASHINGTON — A patchwork of state laws in the aftermath of a Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion, combined with pandemic-related burnout and low reimbursement rates, could exacerbate an already looming national shortage of obstetrician-gynecologists, experts say.

Tribune News Service

OB-GYN workforce shortages could worsen maternal health crisis - Roll Call

Experts worry that a shortage of OBGYNs will exacerbate an increase in problems related to maternal and prenatal health.

Roll Call

Millions could lose health care coverage as states redetermine who is eligible for Medicaid

Starting April 1, states will have to process through all people on their Medicaid rolls.

Axios

Biden speaks in Las Vegas on prescription drug costs

LAS VEGAS — President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged lawmakers to work together to lower drug prescription costs for Americans.

Tribune News Service

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LOCALIZE IT: Nursing home residents rely on small stipends

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The Independent UK

In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies

A half-century-old bit of American bureaucracy is leaving hundreds of thousands of nursing home residents in an unthinkable bind: Living on as little as $30 a month

The Independent UK

Google flexes its health care AI muscle

A Google chatbot now consistently passes medical exam questions with a score of 85%.

Axios

Medicaid health plans try to protect members — and profits — during unwinding

The federal COVID-19 pandemic protections that have largely prohibited states from dropping anyone from Medicaid since 2020 helped millions of low-income Americans retain health insurance coverage — even if they no longer qualified — and brought the U.S. uninsured rate to a record low.

Tribune News Service

Why does insulin cost so much? Big Pharma isn’t the only player driving prices

Eli Lilly & Co.’s announcement that it is slashing prices for its major insulin products could make life easier for some diabetes patients while easing pressure on Big Pharma.

Tribune News Service

Kentucky reports 2,262 new COVID cases over the last week as state prepares for Medicaid changes

LEXINGTON, Ky. — For the second week in a row, Kentucky has zero counties at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s high COVID-19 community level.

Tribune News Service

Reentry programs to help former prisoners obtain health care are often underused

When Matthew Boyd was released from a Georgia state prison in December 2020, officials sent him home without medicines he uses to manage chronic heart and lung conditions and high blood pressure, he said.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois lifeline program for suicidal kids struggles amid a youth mental health crisis, staffing shortages

Despite quick assessments, the state is failing to ensure that thousands of children get any follow-up help, let alone the type of intensive behavioral health support many need.

Los Angeles Times

Biden seeks billions to stop a killer: Hepatitis C

The Biden administration is seeking billions of dollars for a new push to wipe out hepatitis C, a virus that has continued to kill thousands of people annually in the U.S. despite the existence of extremely effective medications that can cure the infection within months.

Los Angeles Times

A look at what is in Biden’s budget plan

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden unveiled a $6.8 trillion budget blueprint on Thursday that included new spending on child care, education and health care, and $5 trillion in proposed tax increases on wealthy Americans and corporations over the next decade.

The Texas Tribune

Lawmakers could use $5 billion of a record surplus for raises, flood prevention and border operations

Budget proposals would boost state spending for the current budget cycle for projects ranging from mental health hospitals to state pay raises. This would leave $27 billion in surplus for the next two years.

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Texas Observer

Millions of Texans Are About to Lose Their Health Insurance

An estimated 2.7 million Texans are at risk of losing their Medicaid insurance after the public health emergency expires on March 31.

The Texas Tribune

At a Korean community center in Houston, the struggle immigrant Texans face with language barriers is clear

Texas largely conducts its state business in English and Spanish. It falls to interpreters like Terry Yun to help people scale the wall dividing them from crucial government services.

Tribune News Service

For young people on Medicare, a hysterectomy sometimes is more affordable than birth control

Sam Chavarría said her doctor was clear about the birth defects her medication could cause if she became pregnant but agreed to keep her on it as long as she had an IUD.

Axios

Medicaid has a target on its back

Some House GOP members told Axios that Medicaid changes could be on the table.

Fortune

States are turning to the big health insurance companies to keep Medicaid enrollees insured once pandemic protections end

UnitedHealthcare, Centene, and Aetna have seen their revenue surge by billions as their membership soared by millions.

The Denver Post

Colorado’s community health programs would gain stability under bill to allow Medicaid funding

DENVER — By 8 a.m. on a recent Saturday, Vuela for Health’s office in Denver’s Cole neighborhood was already buzzing with people there to learn if they should be worried about their hearts.

Tribune News Service

Community workers fan out to persuade immigrant seniors to get covered

OAKLAND, Calif. — For three years, Bertha Embriz of San Francisco has gone without health insurance, skipping annual wellness exams and recently tolerating a broken molar by trying not to chew with it. As an immigrant without legal status, the 58-year-old unpaid caregiver knew that California’s Medicaid program was closed…

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