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More than 400,000 Ohioans may lose Medicaid coverage– government-paid health insurance for low-income or disabled people– this summer when the federal government's COVID-19 emergency declaration ends, according to the Commonwealth Fund. Under the declaration, Ohio and other states were unable to take people off Medicaid, even if they became ineligible.
Community Solutions' Center for Medicaid Policy. Under the declaration, Ohio and other states were unable to take people off Medicaid, even if they became ineligible. But the worry is underfunded and understaffed counties are facing the task of combing through the entire Medicaid population to disenroll ineligible people– all within a 90- day deadline...
The Alabama Town That Could Defeat Jeff Bezos The Amazon billionaire is trying to crush a unionization effort at a warehouse in Bessemer. But David and Goliath fights are in the town’s DNA. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Some 5,800 people who work at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, a town just outside of Birmingham, will receive union ballots on Monday. They have until March 29 to decide whether they want to affiliate with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, or RWDSU, and in doing so, defy the wishes of Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world.