Andy Miller Emanuel Medical Heart in rural Georgia racks up more than $350,000 a month in losses furnishing wellness treatment for low-earnings and uninsured sufferers. But a new condition funding proposal could drastically lessen individuals deficits, not just for the 66-mattress Swainsboro facility but for most rural hospitals in Georgia, […]
Medicaid
A pandemic-era rule that protected people from losing their Medicaid coverage will expire Friday, putting millions of peoples’ health insurance coverage at risk. Medicaid provides free health insurance to people with low incomes. Usually, Medicaid recipients need to renew their coverage every year, and if they are no longer eligible, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year. Roughly 84 million people are covered by the government-sponsored program, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. […]
When he was in prison, Lee Reed was in agonizing back pain. His doctors there told him he needed back surgery, but because he was so close to his release date, they said he’d have to get it done on the outside. Reed saw that surgery as his ticket to […]