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The Dallas Morning News: ‘When Your Health Insurance Is Bigger Than The Mortgage, Something’s Wrong’ Health care spending nationwide will hit a new high this year, rising 4.8 percent, the government said this week. For over 1 million Texans who buy insurance on Healthcare.Gov, they can...
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Reuters: Senators Urge U.S. To Close Lead Testing Gaps, Citing Reuters Investigation Some influential U.S. senators are urging a federal agency to take action to ensure more children are tested for lead poisoning, citing a Reuters investigation that found millions are missing required...
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New Hampshire Union Leader: AG: Medicaid Expansion Law Clamps Down On Gun Purchases By Mentally Ill New Hampshire will start turning over the names of dangerously mentally ill people to the FBI’s gun-buyer background check system, thanks to a little-noticed provision in the state’s...
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The Columbus Dispatch: Lower Medicaid Spending Helped Ohio’s Budget Amid Revenue Shortfall The cash didn’t flow as expected for last year’s state budget, but Ohio still landed on solid ground thanks to spending that finished $1.2 billion below estimates, due in large part to Medicaid....
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MTN (Montana) News: More Than 47K Montanans Signed Up For Expanded Medicaid Coverage Montana’s Medicaid expansion is covering 47,400 low-income people so far this year and has paid for $75 million in care, with federal money, Bullock administration officials told an oversight panel...
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