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Health care sharing ministries offer reimbursements for members’ medical bills. But they are largely unregulated, and most restrict maternity coverage. Four families said they struggled to get ...
Among adults aged 18 to 64, states that expanded Medicaid had an uninsured rate of 7.3% in the first quarter of 2016, while non-expansion states had a 14.1% uninsured rate. [31] The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimated that the cost of expansion was $6,366 per person for 2015, about 49 percent above previous estimates.
The Heartbeat Protection Act (SB 300) is a Florida state law passed in 2023 that criminalizes abortion after 6 weeks' gestation [1]. The law went into effect May 1, 2024 after passing in 2023. Under Florida’s current abortion ban, it is nearly impossible for most women to access an abortion.
The measure would have expanded coverage to over 4 million more participants by 2012, while phasing out most state expansions in the program that include any adults other than pregnant women. The bill called for a budget increase for five years totaling $35 billion, increasing total CHIP spending to $60 billion for the five-year period.
A family of three must make less than $7,746 a year, for instance, for non-pregnant parents to qualify for Medicaid in Florida. They are in what is called the “coverage gap.”
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A 2011 study found that there were 2.1 million hospital stays for uninsured patients, accounting for 4.4% ($17.1 billion) of total aggregate inpatient hospital costs in the United States. [13] The costs of treating the uninsured must often be absorbed by providers as charity care , passed on to the insured via cost-shifting and higher health ...
The Florida Pregnancy Care Network was planning to award another $275,000 to Mary’s this year, according to documents obtained through a public records request — until journalists from Reveal ...