Image Credit:designer491/iStock/GettyImages The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) offers Medicaid to low income wage earners. Medicaid is a low cost health insurance program that gives people who cannot afford health insurance access to medical care. The MDCH imposes income limits when...
On December 11, 2024, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. The complaint seeks to block the enforcement of a May 9, 2014,...more This New Year, California Imposes Guardrails on the Use of AI...
(in 2024). Regular/State Plan Medicaid may have lower income limits. They are oftentimes equal to the SSI limit ($943/month in 2024), or equal to the federal poverty level ($1,255/month in 2024). However, there is a great range in income and asset limits within the states. There ...
Brian Kemp Monday defended and doubled down on his signature Medicaid program — the only one in the nation with a work requirement — further dimming chances the state could adopt a broader expansion of the taxpayer-funded low-income health plan without a work ma...
Medicaid Use Among Older Low-Income Mexican-Origin Individuals in California and TexasAngel, JacquelineAngel, Jacqueline
Bills proposed in Texas' legislature didn't get a vote last year. And the state doesn't allow voter-initiated referendums, which have been a route to expansion in some Republican-led states. An estimated 1.2 million uninsured people would be eligible for coverage — more than in any other ...
In Texas, a parent in a household of three would be limited to earning no more than $344 a month to qualify for Medicaid. And most adults with a disability can qualify without a dependent child and be eligible for Medicaid home health services with an income of up to $2,800 a month....
Texas State Discretionary Policies and Services in the Medicaid, Social Services, and Supplemental Security Income ProgramsHarrington, CBogaert, M. GLalonde, GWood, JB
Few recent estimates of childhood asthma incidence exist in the literature, although the importance of incidence surveillance for understanding asthma risk factors has been recognized. Asthma prevalence, morbidity, and mortality reports have repeatedly shown that low-income children are disproportionately ...