Medicaid

by Mary Lou Masters   Medicaid expansion has failed to prevent the ensuing opioid crisis, with 14 out of the 15 states with the highest overdose rates being expansion states, according to research exclusively shared with the Daily…

Between 5 million and 14 million people will likely lose Medicaid coverage when COVID-19 public health emergency ends April 1, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) of 2020…

The Biden administration has been approving state requests to use Medicaid funds to pay for individuals’ food, air conditioning and rent as part of a push to address health problems related to housing and lifestyle, according to The…

Medicaid expansion has failed to prevent hospital closure, with almost 50 shutting down in expansion states since 2014, according to research given exclusively to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The research from the Foundation…

by Jon Styf   The United States will have 100 million residents on Medicaid in the next 72 days, according to the Foundation for Government Accountability, meaning that nearly one-third of all Americans will be on the program for…

WASHINGTON — Many Republicans hailed the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision as a victory for one of their highest-profile priorities: ending abortion. But it comes with a string attached — more federal spending, which Republicans usually…

Ohioans are no doubt greatly relieved that the coronavirus pandemic appears to be winding down — and taking with it the sickness, death and inconvenience of the past two years. But as it does,…

The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.After refusing to disclose federal watchdog reports, the Ohio Department of Medicaid last…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Had Marian Dancy not called the doctor referral number on the back of her insurance card, she could have died from heart failure. Six months after giving birth to her fourth child in May 2019, Dancy,…

The Ohio Department of Medicaid not only is refusing to release key oversight reports from its contractors, it’s refusing to say whether it even considered them last year as it undertook the largest…