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Medicaid unwinding, abortion ballot measures, drug-dodging fungus, drug ads, caregivers, cancer, heart attacks, and more are in the news.
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Medicaid unwinding, abortion ballot measures, drug-dodging fungus, drug ads, caregivers, cancer, heart attacks, and more are in the news.
Five of the seven states widely expected to be political battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election have populations very much like that of the U.S. overall, in a range of demographic and socioeconomic measures. For decades, the presidential selection season has begun with the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire
A chorus of stories recount the ways the unwinding has upended people’s lives, but Native Americans are proving particularly vulnerable to losing coverage and face greater obstacles to reenrolling in Medicaid or finding other coverage.
About 500 more people died from drowning each year between 2020 and 2022 than did in 2019, the CDC reports.
Pat Flowers, Montana Democratic Senate minority leader, said during a political event in early April that 13,000 tribal members had been disenrolled in the state.