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The federal government’s reimbursement formula for Medicaid gives a huge funding advantage to wealthy states that lean Democratic, a new analysis finds.

U.S. economic output declined by an annual rate of 32.9 percent in the second quarter of the year, according to the U.S. Department of...

The federal government’s reimbursement formula for Medicaid gives a huge funding advantage to wealthy states that lean Democratic, a new analysis finds.

"Medicaid reimburses nursing homes only about 80 percent of the private-pay rate and often less than the cost of providing the care, according to the American Health Care Association. Consequently, nursing homes heavily dependent on Medicaid have difficulty hiring and retaining enough quality caregivers at the very low salaries they can afford to pay."

An analysis by Columbia University epidemiologists finds more than 36,000 Americans died unnecessarily because government regulators reacted too slowly to the building coronavirus global pandemic in March and April 2020.

Due to growing demand, a Minnesota-based company called Nice Healthcare is offering affordable “concierge”-style primary care by visiting patients in their homes.

Studies analyzing data from the COVID-19 pandemic show stay-in-place orders and social distancing have been costing the economy and individual health several times the value of lives saved.

“Physicians have the ability to set and receive text notifications for patients that are outside their current threshold for any of their vitals”

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) cancelled his state’s planned Medicaid expansion, citing a lack of funding that can be traced back to the impact of COVID-19 on the American economy.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) cancelled his state’s planned Medicaid expansion, citing a lack of funding that can be traced back to the impact of COVID-19 on the American economy.