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    Breaking a 10-year streak, the number of uninsured Americans rises

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    Phil Galewitz
    Kaiser Health News
    Publish date: September 11, 2019

    Numbers run in contradiction to lower unemployment rates.

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    CMS issues split decision on Arkansas Medicaid waiver

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    Phil Galewitz
    Kaiser Health News
    Publish date: March 7, 2018

    Nine other states have requests pending with CMS to enact a Medicaid work requirement.

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    Indiana gets Medicaid waiver that could slice enrollment

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    Phil Galewitz
    Publish date: February 5, 2018

    Efforts are closely watched as Indiana’s Medicaid expansion was started by Vice President Pence and CMS Administrator Verma.

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    Trump administration clears way to require work for some Medicaid enrollees

    Author:
    Phil Galewitz
    Kaiser Health News
    Publish date: January 11, 2018

    Adding a work requirement to Medicaid would mark one of the biggest changes since its inception in 1966.

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    Running on empty: CHIP funding could run out Jan. 19 for some states

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    Phil Galewitz
    Kaiser Health News
    Publish date: January 8, 2018

    The latest estimates for when federal funding runs out could cause states to freeze enrollment and alert parents that the program could shut down...

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    With CHIP in limbo, here are five takeaways on the congressional impasse

    Author:
    Phil Galewitz
    Kaiser Health News
    Publish date: December 4, 2017

    CHIP has been left in the fiscal lurch only once before. In 2007, CHIP went several weeks without funding authorization from Congress.

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    Five takeaways from Congress’ failure to extend funding for children’s coverage

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    Phil Galewitz
    Kaiser Health News
    Publish date: October 4, 2017

    Congress finally seems ready to take action on the Children’s Health Insurance Program after funding lapsed Sept. 30.

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    21 Medicare health plans warned to fix provider directory errors

    Author:
    Phil Galewitz
    Susan Jaffe
    Publish date: January 19, 2017

    Federal officials this month warned 21 Medicare Advantage insurers with high rates of errors in their online network directories that they could...

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    VA Treats Patients’ Impatience With Clinical Pharmacists

    Author:
    Phil Galewitz
    Kaiser Health News
    Publish date: October 26, 2016
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    Obamacare marketplace shakeout rocks Arizona, Southeast

    Author:
    Phil Galewitz
    Publish date: August 18, 2016
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    Small businesses snub Obamacare’s SHOP exchange

    Author:
    Phil Galewitz
    Publish date: November 6, 2015

    Nationally, about 85,000 people, from 11,000 small businesses, have coverage through the online marketplace known as the Small Business Health...

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    Good news, bad news in the Medicare trustees report

    Author:
    Phil Galewitz
    Publish date: July 23, 2015

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    Tennessee, Kansas also warned: Expand Medicaid or risk hospital funds

    Author:
    Phil Galewitz
    Publish date: April 22, 2015

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