Michigan’s health director spent a year and $30 million building a work requirements system for Medicaid. The problems he encountered have him worried now that 40 states must do the same by 2027.
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New studies show what’s at stake if Medicaid is scaled back
Researchers studied the health care program’s effect on the health of millions of Americans and found tens of thousands of lives were saved.
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Amid Medicaid’s ‘unwinding,’ many states work to expand health care access
States have been culling their Medicaid rolls since pandemic coverage protections expired last year. But more than a dozen states have also expanded access for lower-income people, including children.
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Here’s what’s holding back Medicaid expansion in Mississippi and other Southern states
More than a million people could get health care if these states would pass laws expanding Medicaid. Most residents want the expansion but entrenched politics stands in the way.


