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Democratic Senators Ask Watchdog Agency To Investigate Georgia’s Medicaid Work Rule

Democratic Senators Ask Watchdog Agency To Investigate Georgia’s Medicaid Work Rule

Health and Mediacal
U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock (left) and Jon Ossoff of Georgia, together with another high-ranking Democrat, have actually asked the Government Accountability Office to examine the expense of Georgia's Medicaid work requirements after KFF Health News' reporting. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc through Getty Images) 3 Democratic senators asked the nation's leading nonpartisan federal government guard dog on Tuesday to examine the expenses of a Georgia program that needs some individuals to work to get Medicaid protection. The program, called "Georgia Pathways to Coverage," is the country's just active Medicaid work requirement. Pathways has actually cost 10s of millions in federal and state dollars on administration and consulting charges while registering 5,54...
Weapon Violence Is a Plague. Could Medicaid Help?

Weapon Violence Is a Plague. Could Medicaid Help?

Health and Mediacal
To deal with America's weapon issue, a growing variety of states are enabling Medicaid dollars to money community-based violence programs planned to stop shootings. The concept is to increase resources for violence avoidance programs, which have actually been overwhelmed in some cities by a spike in violent criminal offense given that the covid-19 pandemic. An infusion of trusted financing, their supporters state, might enable these nonprofits to broaden their reach to more homeowners most at threat of being shot-- or of shooting somebody. That's the strategy in Chicago, where Arne Duncan, the previous U.S. education secretary, leads the violence avoidance group Chicago CRED. "We're attempting to construct a public health facilities to fight weapon violence," Duncan informed me....