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Kicked off Medicaid: Millions at risk as states trim rolls

Author:     AMANDA SEITZ and ANITA SNOW
Source:     Associated Press
Publication Date:     April 28, 2023
 Link: Kicked off Medicaid: Millions at risk as states trim rolls
Stephan:  

Yet another story about a horrible trend in our horrible healthcare system. Because of what the Republicans are doing millions of families with young children are going through the process of losing Medicaid. Because of the corruption of the U.S. Congress, as a result of Citizens United, we are the only nation in the developed world without a healthcare system oriented to fostering wellbeing. Instead, our system is all based on greed and profit.

Alicia Celaya, David Cardenas and their son Adrian, 3, are shown at their home, Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Phoenix. Celaya and her family will lose their medicaid coverage later this year, a result of a year-long nationwide review of the 84 million Medicaid enrollees that will require states to remove people whose incomes are now too high for the program. Advocacy groups say beneficiaries are finding the process confusing and at times riddled with errors, leaving some of the country's poorest people suddenly without health insurance and unable to pay for necessary medical care. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Alicia Celaya and David Cardenas and their son Adrian who is suffering from cancer. Credit: Associate Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Days out from a surgery and with a young son undergoing chemotherapy, Kyle McHenry was scrambling to figure out if his Florida family will still be covered by Medicaid come Monday.

One form on the state’s website said coverage for their sick 5-year-old son, Ryder, had been denied. But another said the family would remain on Medicaid through next year. Still, a letter from the state said McHenry now makes too much money for him, his wife and their older […]

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