The Trump administration said Friday that Medicare and Medicaid won’t expand coverage of popular anti-obesity drugs, rejecting a proposal issued late last year by the Biden administration.

States have been culling their Medicaid rolls since pandemic coverage protections expired last year. But more than a dozen states have also expanded access for lower-income people, including children.

Without expanding coverage to people like Davis through a comprehensive federal program, we will continue to watch Georgians – and other Americans – die from preventable, treatable conditions.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Michael Neidorff, CEO of the health insurance company Centene Corporation, which has expanded coverage on the insurance marketplace even as other insurers have withdrawn.

In short, expanding coverage would improve the bottom line for Texas business. But strict criteria for receiving Medicaid created a large of group of working poor that still could not afford coverage.

Outlook Expanding health coverage is good. But we also need to fix stingy plans. The Biden administration isn’t paying enough attention to the problem of “underinsurance.” ...

A new bill could dramatically expand coverage for certain treatments under Medicaid.. H.R. 10058, the Medicaid Breast Cancer Access to Treatment Act, was introduced by Representative Maxine Waters ...

Democrats spent much of the 2020 presidential primary debating the best way to expand public health insurance. They sparred over whether to enroll everyone in public coverage — the preferred ...

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