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Filling gaps in mental health services

Efforts to offer residential mental health services were boosted, in part, by a 2021 federal COVID relief law

Salon

In after-hours notice, Gov. Greg Abbott announces another leadership change for the Department of Family and Protective Services

Former DFPS commissioner Anne Heiligenstein was tapped by Abbott in June to serve as the agency’s executive deputy commissioner. Last month, she was out. Now she’s back.

The Texas Tribune

How optimism can close the Medicaid coverage gap

More than 2 million low-income people — half of them in Florida and Texas — are uninsured because they are stuck in a coverage gap: They earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but because of a quirk of the Affordable Care Act, they earn too little to qualify for…

Tribune News Service

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After election win, California’s attorney general turns to investigating hospital algorithms for racial bias

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Attorney General Rob Bonta sailed to victory in the Nov. 8 election, riding his progressive record on reproductive rights, gun control and social justice reform. As he charts a course for his next four years, the 50-year-old Democrat wants to target racial discrimination in health care,…

Tribune News Service

Path cleared for Georgia to launch work requirements for Medicaid

Georgia is set to become the only state to have work requirements for Medicaid coverage.

Tribune News Service

Stopping the Medicaid churn

Multiple states are rethinking their enrollment policies for the youngest Medicaid members

Salon

The impending intergenerational crisis

Many Americans with disabilities lack long-term care plans — and that could lead to a future crisis of care

Salon

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Illinois must ensure foster kids get timely health care

The top Medicaid contractor in Illinois isn’t getting it done.

Chicago Sun-Times

Too many Black babies are dying. Birth workers in Kansas fight to keep them alive

Nationally, infant mortality declined to a record low in 2020. But a 58% rise in Black infant mortality in Kansas sent birth experts searching for answers and solutions.

WEKU

Michael Hiltzik: 'Moderates' like Mitt Romney are threatening Social Security. Democrats don't have to let them

You may have thought that the drubbing Republicans received in the recent election would have prompted party leaders to think more warily about promoting policies that nauseate the voting public.

Los Angeles Times

Policy backs 'fourth trimester' care

Mounting pressure to expand long forgotten postpartum mental care is creating new policy

Salon

US Senate investigates ‘catastrophic failure’ to protect female migrant detainees

Migrants held in Georgia were unwillingly subjected to ‘excessive, invasive and often unnecessary’ gynecological procedures

The Guardian - US

Knoxville's ingrained health inequality

Health inequalities run deep in Knoxville — and the health system and debt collectors perpetuate the inequality

Salon

Texas’ nursing homes are missing something: nurses

A dearth of nurses is leaving Texas seniors — especially in rural areas — without care.

The Texas Tribune

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Texas lawmakers target property taxes, election fraud and transgender people in new legislation ahead of 2023 session

Thousands of bills are expected to be filed for the legislative session that begins in January. Lawmakers are expected to have a budget surplus when they return to Austin.

Salon

Abortion bans neglect teen pregnancies

Conservative states have high teen birth rates and little support — an issue exacerbated by abortion bans

Fortune

Maven Clinic raises $90 million at a $1.35 billion valuation

The startup, founded by CEO Kate Ryder, became the first unicorn in the women's and family health category in 2021.

Tribune News Service

‘Impending intergenerational crisis’: Americans with disabilities lack long-term care plans

Thinking about the future makes Courtney Johnson nervous.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Top Illinois Medicaid contractor Centene Corp. failed foster kids with ‘unacceptable’ medical care

A nearly $370 million contract promised to improve health care for state wards. But, for two years, Centene’s YouthCare program fell short on basic care, leaving foster parents scrambling.

Tribune News Service

Stopping the churn: Why some states want to guarantee Medicaid coverage from birth to age 6

Before the COVID-19 public health emergency began in 2020, millions of children churned on and off Medicaid each year — an indication that many were losing coverage because of administrative problems, rather than because their family’s income had increased and made them ineligible.

Tribune News Service

South Dakota voters approved Medicaid expansion, but implementation may not be easy

RAPID CITY, S.D. — South Dakotans voted Tuesday to expand the state’s Medicaid program to cover thousands of additional low-income residents, becoming the seventh state to approve expansion via the ballot box.

Tribune News Service

Homelessness among older people is on the rise, driven by inflation and the housing crunch

COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont. — On a recent rainy afternoon in this small town just outside Glacier National Park, Lisa Beaty and Kim Hilton were preparing to sell most of their belongings before moving out of their three-bedroom, two-bathroom rental home.

WEKU

More older Americans become homeless as inflation rises and housing costs spike

In Montana and across the nation, homeless shelters report the worrisome trend that seniors are a growing proportion of their residents.

Salon

Medi-Cal leaves most patients behind

The Medi-Cal program aims to address health disparities in California, but it is riddled with issues

Tribune News Service

Abortion rights backers see big wins in Tuesday results

Voters in five states Tuesday appeared poised to follow Kansas’ lead to support fewer restrictions on abortion.

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