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North Carolina's proposed Medicaid work requirement includes a three-month lookback period that critics say will deny coverage to people who already qualify. The research on what coverage gaps do to health outcomes is not complicated. People skip medications, miss screenings, and get sicker.
By Maya Okafor · 3 min read
West Suburban Medical Center collapsed because 90% of its work went unbilled for a year. San Francisco is closing youth clinics to close a $643 million budget gap. These are not isolated failures. They are previews of what happens when the infrastructure underneath your health breaks down.
By Kai Brighton · 3 min read
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act cuts $137 billion from rural Medicaid while offering $50 billion to soften the blow. A clinic in Minnesota is already counting the patients it will lose. The numbers do not work, and the hospital closures will not be reversible.
By Kai Brighton · 3 min read