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Health Insurance and Costs

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More Iowa youth need mental health care. Has funding kept up with the demand?

Heather Preston, an Iowa mom of five adopted sons with behavioral health needs, struggles to find care due to waitlists, low Medicaid funding, and a lack of therapists across the state.

Health Insurance and Costs, Poverty and Class
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks to reporters.

The GOP is on the cusp of major changes to Medicaid. Ready your coverage now.

Members of the House Energy and Commerce committee are slated to begin marking up key parts of the GOP bill on Tuesday.

Health Insurance and Costs
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Under a New Law, California Schools Hope Insurance Changes Lead to More Student Therapy

In areas like California’s rural Shasta County, school campuses may be the most effective places to care for children’s mental health needs, and such care will now be covered by insurance.

Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs
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Erick Vertein lost his home when an insurer declined his mental health leave request, for one reason

Thousands of court records analyzed by the Journal Sentinel show, there’s an incentive to tip the scale toward an insurer and recommend denials.

Health Insurance and Costs
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They're middle class and insured. Childbirth still left them with crippling debt.

Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting them at risk of high medical bills after having babies.

Health Insurance and Costs
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Building trust with ‘gate openers’ proves key for reporting on undocumented farmworkers’ access to health care in California

A laundromat in Smith River became a crucial entry point for reporting on undocumented farmworkers' health care access in California's rural north.

Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs
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The surprising truth about a Texas program that ‘claws back’ wealth from the families of those on Medicaid

Open records requests revealed something that I didn’t expect to find. I assumed that state health agencies handled state health programs. I was wrong.

Health Insurance and Costs
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The health care busts that follow mining’s boom-time benefits

Good mining jobs with good benefits can counterintuitively hurt access to care.

Health Insurance and Costs
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This state program collects money from the deceased. Families pay the price.

For nearly two decades, the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program in Texas has filed repayment claims against Medicaid recipients after they die, threatening the inheritances of vulnerable Texans.

Health Insurance and Costs
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Can Sacramento get a handle on its youth vaping crisis?

Vaping and other smokeless alternative forms of nicotine have proliferated as cigarette substitutes, creating in turn new types of addiction in adolescent users.

Health Insurance and Costs

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