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Quinn Libson
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Elder Abuse Is the ‘Silent Epidemic of Our Time’
The opioid abuse crisis may be contributing to a ‘staggering’ spike in adult protective services caseloads. And local officials fear the problem will only get worse.
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The Opioid Epidemic Has Cost the U.S. More Than $1 Trillion
Most of the financial cost of the crisis came in the form of lost earning and productivity potential for those who had died.
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Trump Picks White House Deputy Chief of Staff as the Next ‘Drug Czar’
But Jim Carroll has no prior public health experience.
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Meet West Virginia’s New Drug Czar: Dr. Michael Brumage
“The main thing I want to bring with me to the table is an all-hands approach,” Brumage told Route Fifty. “This is not just about law enforcement and it’s not just about public health.”
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Seema Verma: Medicaid Work Requirements Are ‘True Compassion’
Now that the Trump administration has approved work requirement waivers in two states—Kentucky and Indiana—as many as 11 more could follow.
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Project Will Release New Mosquitoes Into a South Florida City
Here’s why that’s actually a good thing.
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Mayors: Yes, We Too
“Those of us who are women who hold power … we have a responsibility to share our stories.”
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Philadelphia’s Mayor Touts a Holistic Strategy to Ending Gun Violence
But Jim Kenney also warns his fellow mayors that “without the help of federal and state governments in education and job training and addiction services, we’re never going to turn the corner.”
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15 Kentuckians Sue Trump Administration Over New Medicaid Waiver
The plaintiffs contend that waivers that require work as a prerequisite for health coverage will cause “irreparable harm to the health and welfare of the poorest and most vulnerable in our country.”
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The CHIP Reauthorization Saga Is Over But the Damage Has Already Been Done
State officials aren’t likely to forget this episode of Congressional paralysis—and the precedent it set—any time soon.
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Los Angeles City Hall Really Needs a New Graphics Designer
The job requirements surprisingly do not include experience with Microsoft Paint.
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Senate Republicans Blame Medicaid for the Rise in Opioid Deaths
But the data and the on-the-ground experience of local health officials beg to differ.
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Kentucky’s Medicaid Waiver Will Do More Than Just Require People to Work
The state’s waiver would also impose monthly premiums on beneficiaries, and threatens six-month program lockouts on individuals who do not comply with Medicaid rules.
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States OK’d to Test Impacts of Work Requirements for Medicaid Beneficiaries
The new guidelines would allow states to force some able-bodied childless adults to work as a condition for eligibility for the federal program.
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Likely to Come Soon From the Trump Administration: Guidelines for Medicaid Work Requirements
Experts speculate that Kentucky could be the first state to see its work requirement waiver approved—a move that could mean 95,000 fewer enrollees in that state over the next five years.
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New Jersey’s Smallest Lame-Duck Loser—An Official State Microbe
Even though a legislative proposal lost out in Trenton, this bacterium helped win a Nobel Prize and cure a global disease.
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Temporary CHIP Funding May Run Out Sooner Than Expected
That means hard conversations like when and how to freeze enrollment or terminate coverage altogether will be back on the table in some states.
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The Fight for Medicaid Expansion Still Isn’t Over in Maine
Plus an update on Medicaid ballot initiatives in Utah and Idaho, and what the legislative tiebreaker in Virginia means for that state’s expansion.
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Bad Data Is Partly to Blame in Texas’ Maternal Mortality Spike
Maternal health data in the U.S. is so imprecise the federal government hasn’t released an official annual count of pregnancy-linked fatalities since 2007.
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New CDC Data: 2016 Was the Deadliest Year Yet for the Opioid Crisis
More people died from overdoses in 2016 than died from AIDS in 1995, the peak of that crisis.
