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He Built Michigan’s Medicaid Work Requirement System. Now He’s Warning Other States. It was March 2020, and Robert Gordon was about to kick some 80,000 people off health insurance. As the Michigan state health director, he h...
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Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research The Trump administration has given notice that political appointees, rather than scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money fro...
Cuando los pacientes quedan atrapados en medio de las peleas entre aseguradoras y hospitales Amy Frank dijo que pasó 17 horas al teléfono durante casi tres semanas, rebotando entre su aseguradora y el sistema hospitalario local, para...
Social Security Praises Its New Chatbot. Ex-Officials Say It Was Tested But Shelved Under Biden. John McGing couldn’t reach a human. That might be business-as-usual in this economy, but it wasn’t business; he had called the Social Securi...
Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of Trump Clawbacks The Trump administration’s cuts to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding for state and local health departments had vastly unev...