How to Use Medicaid in a Sentence
Medicaid
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Jump to: Millions of people may lose access to Medicaid.
— Katie Camero, SELF, 14 Oct. 2024 -
Patients on Medicare and Medicaid appear less likely to be able to access them than those with private coverage.
— April Rubin, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024 -
For those with no co-pay or those on Medicaid, the out-of-pocket cost could be $0.
— Amy Marschall, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023 -
Biden over the weekend appeared to rule out changes to Medicaid.
— Darlene Superville, Fortune, 17 May 2023 -
Biden has said the Medicaid work requirements would be a nonstarter.
— Mary Clare Jalonick, Fortune, 27 May 2023 -
But since the unwinding, the clinic saw an 8% drop in Medicaid patients.
— Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 31 May 2024 -
Importantly, Medicaid pays for 42% of all births in the U.S. but covers access to donor milk in just 17 states.
— Sionika Thayagabalu and Dominick Lemas, STAT, 18 Apr. 2024 -
Alaska is not one of those states, and this type of care in the state remains available to families, and covered by Medicaid.
— Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2023 -
More than half of Georgia births are covered by Medicaid.
— Ariel Hart, ajc, 13 July 2023 -
Many of those who lost coverage had incomes that were too high to qualify for Medicaid or had aged out of the program.
— Noah Weiland, New York Times, 3 June 2024 -
The bulk of the spending in her new bill, roughly $2.1 billion, would go toward covering costs in MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program.
— Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023 -
And the answer is: Medicaid, the program that many politicians dream of cutting into oblivion.
— Parker Smith, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023 -
The bill calls for work requirements for Medicaid, food stamps, and cash assistance programs—which would barely make a dent in U.S. debt.
— Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 May 2023 -
The new debt ceiling deal has no changes to Medicaid and fully funds medical care for veterans.
— ABC News, 28 May 2023 -
All Medicaid plans and most large employers cover at least a portion of mental health care, too, according to the APA.
— Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 3 Jan. 2024 -
Moyle said lawmakers will need to wait to see whether the Medicaid bill causes problems that cannot be resolved by the executive branch in the coming months.
— Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2024 -
The social worker explained that the family had no health insurance and would have to apply for Medicaid.
— Maggie Jones, New York Times, 17 May 2023 -
Those who were asked to leave were using Family Care (Medicaid) funding.
— Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024 -
The new law is banking on a waiver from the federal government to spend federal funds earmarked for Medicare, Medicaid, and the like on a new state-run health plan.
— Sally Pipes, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023 -
In our case, Medicaid also required my cousin to obtain a new power of attorney.
— Dawn Alley, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023 -
But the nation's only Medicaid program that makes recipients meet a work requirement is off to a very slow start.
— The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2023 -
The state’s two Catholic bishops sent a letter to lawmakers and Reeves in February calling for the Medicaid expansion.
— Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 22 June 2023 -
The goal is to get the device approved by regulators so that it can be prescribed by doctors through the National Health Service or Medicaid.
— Amit Katwala, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024 -
States that didn’t comply couldn’t get higher federal Medicaid match rates, worth billions for Texas.
— Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 27 May 2023 -
The state also had fewer people living below the poverty line and receiving food stamps and Medicaid.
— Megan Banta, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Now, states will again be allowed to go through their Medicaid enrollment rolls and withdraw coverage.
— Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 31 Mar. 2023 -
Number one is for spending down to qualify for Medicaid.
— Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2023 -
With it, the 5-month-old, whose first name is Justyce, can get a social security card, health care through Medicaid and benefits she’s entitled to receive.
— Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 10 June 2023 -
The predatory American healthcare system is about to encounter new prey in the form of millions of families thrown off Medicaid rolls.
— Cynthia A. Fisher, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2023 -
The in-person events double as a mini vendor fair where residents can sign up for Medicare, Medicaid or FoodShare.
— La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
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