<p>Under Carmen Heredia’s leadership, Arizona's <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> agency withheld payment to more than 300 businesses as it investigated <a href="/tags/fraud/" rel="tag">#fraud</a> allegations. </p><p>The state’s swift response left <a href="/tags/patients/" rel="tag">#patients</a> homeless, ProPublica and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting found.</p><p><a href="/tags/arizona/" rel="tag">#Arizona</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#HealthCare</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-medicaid-fraud-carmen-heredia-resigns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/arizona-medicaid-fraud-carmen-heredia-resigns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ari</span><span class="invisible">zona-medicaid-fraud-carmen-heredia-resigns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p>
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<p>Two years after Arizona officials uncovered a $2.5 billion Medicaid fraud scheme that targeted Native Americans seeking treatment for addictions, the state has recouped $125 million — just 5% of the funds the state estimates it paid to bad actors.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-medicaid-fraud-investigation-taxpayer-funds?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/arizona-medicaid-fraud-investigation-taxpayer-funds?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ari</span><span class="invisible">zona-medicaid-fraud-investigation-taxpayer-funds?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/arizona/" rel="tag">#Arizona</a> <a href="/tags/fraud/" rel="tag">#Fraud</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/native/" rel="tag">#Native</a> <a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a> <a href="/tags/addiction/" rel="tag">#Addiction</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a></p>
<p>He Became the Face of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement. Now He’s Fed Up With It.<br>—</p><p>A 54-year-old mechanic called Pathways to Coverage a “great program” at the governor’s press conference. But after getting kicked off the health insurance program for low-income Georgians twice, bureaucratic red tape has him at his wit’s end.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-pathways-brian-kemp-luke-seaborn-testimonial-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-pathways-brian-kemp-luke-seaborn-testimonial-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/geo</span><span class="invisible">rgia-medicaid-pathways-brian-kemp-luke-seaborn-testimonial-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/insurance/" rel="tag">#Insurance</a></p>
<p>The Firm Running Georgia’s Struggling Medicaid Experiment Was Also Paid Millions to Sell It to the Public<br>—</p><p>Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to build, manage and market Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program. Yet only 3% of eligible residents have enrolled.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/deloitte-georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-campaign?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/deloitte-georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-campaign?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/del</span><span class="invisible">oitte-georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-campaign?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/marketing/" rel="tag">#Marketing</a> <a href="/tags/consultant/" rel="tag">#Consultant</a></p>
<p>In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin.</p><p>There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-postpartum-medicaid-coverage-robin-vos?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-postpartum-medicaid-coverage-robin-vos?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/wis</span><span class="invisible">consin-postpartum-medicaid-coverage-robin-vos?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/wisconsin/" rel="tag">#Wisconsin</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#Women</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/pregnancy/" rel="tag">#Pregnancy</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>
<p>Dozens of People Died in Arizona Sober Living Homes as State Officials Fumbled Medicaid Fraud Response<br>—</p><p>Arizona officials acknowledged that a fraud scheme targeting Indigenous people with addictions cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. But they haven’t accounted publicly for the number of deaths tied to the scheme.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-sober-homes-deaths-medicaid-fraud?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/arizona-sober-homes-deaths-medicaid-fraud?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ari</span><span class="invisible">zona-sober-homes-deaths-medicaid-fraud?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/arizona/" rel="tag">#Arizona</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/addiction/" rel="tag">#Addiction</a> <a href="/tags/fraud/" rel="tag">#Fraud</a> <a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a> <a href="/tags/native/" rel="tag">#Native</a> <a href="/tags/nativeamerican/" rel="tag">#NativeAmerican</a></p>
<p>Georgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.<br>—</p><p>Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million — a warning for other states looking to impose restrictions on Medicaid in a second Trump presidency.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-to-coverage-hurdles?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-to-coverage-hurdles?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/geo</span><span class="invisible">rgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-to-coverage-hurdles?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.<br>—</p><p>GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-big-beautiful-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-big-beautiful-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/geo</span><span class="invisible">rgia-medicaid-work-requirement-big-beautiful-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/bigbeautifulbill/" rel="tag">#BigBeautifulBill</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>'s <a href="/tags/onebigbeautifulbill/" rel="tag">#OneBigBeautifulBill</a> cuts federal <a href="/tags/spending/" rel="tag">#spending</a> on <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> & <a href="/tags/affordablecareact/" rel="tag">#AffordableCareAct</a> marketplaces by ~$1 trillion over a decade, acc/to the <a href="/tags/nonpartisan/" rel="tag">#nonpartisan</a> <a href="/tags/cbo/" rel="tag">#CBO</a>, threatening the physical & financial <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> of tens of millions of <a href="/tags/americans/" rel="tag">#Americans</a>.</p><p>The bill, which the <a href="/tags/senate/" rel="tag">#Senate</a> passed Tues, would reverse many of the health coverage gains of <a href="/tags/biden/" rel="tag">#Biden</a> & <a href="/tags/obama/" rel="tag">#Obama</a>, whose policies made it easier for millions of people to access <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> & reduced the US <a href="/tags/uninsured/" rel="tag">#uninsured</a> rate to record lows.</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5453870/senate-republicans-tax-bill-medicaid-health-care" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5453870/senate-republicans-tax-bill-medicaid-health-care"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.npr.org/sections/shots-hea</span><span class="invisible">lth-news/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5453870/senate-republicans-tax-bill-medicaid-health-care</span></a></p>
<p>Want To Fight Back? Declare Independence From Corporate <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a>? Start Here!</p><p>WATCH & SUBSCRIBE! <a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/want-to-fight-back-declare-independence?r=j0lyx&triedRedirect=true" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/want-to-fight-back-declare-independence?r=j0lyx&triedRedirect=true"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/want-to-fight</span><span class="invisible">-back-declare-independence?r=j0lyx&triedRedirect=true</span></a> <a href="/tags/substack/" rel="tag">#substack</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/stockmarket/" rel="tag">#stockmarket</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#uk</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/lisamurkowski/" rel="tag">#LisaMurkowski</a> will never be looked at as someone w decency again. She's a ghoul. She is <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#maga</a> </p><p>"This Awful Mistake Will Haunt Her for The Rest of Her Life" </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFmQ14XWFM" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFmQ14XWFM"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFmQ1</span><span class="invisible">4XWFM</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/bbb/" rel="tag">#bbb</a> <a href="/tags/bigbeautifulbill/" rel="tag">#bigbeautifulbill</a> <a href="/tags/alaska/" rel="tag">#alaska</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#uk</a> <a href="/tags/france/" rel="tag">#france</a> <a href="/tags/germany/" rel="tag">#germany</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/budget/" rel="tag">#budget</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/snap/" rel="tag">#SNAP</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a></p>
<p>Remember when RFK Jr said he wanted to make lists of autistic people? </p><p>Disabled advocates warned that was just the beginning. That the violation of medical privacy would be used for nefarious purposes. </p><p>Today the regime announced it’s giving all personally identifiable information of Medicaid enrolees to ICE. </p><p>That’s right, ICE bullies will now have access to almost 80 million people’s personal info. This is an atrocious violation of privacy that will no doubt be used to target other groups as well.</p><p>It won’t stop with immigrants. It won’t stop with autistic people.</p><p>Fascists never stop and we must all fight back.</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/ableism/" rel="tag">#ableism</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#disability</a></p>
<p>The <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> plan already funded by the Public has been scuttled with NO replacement. The tax credits to states - also already paid for by the Public - funding hundreds of me marketplace programs that provide <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> & <a href="/tags/medical/" rel="tag">#medical</a> services to tens of thousands of people, were taken and given away by <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> - largely by donors to the Senate Minority Leader and House Speaker, with a few vague promises to negotiate some scraps back, all now evidently broken. At the end of 2025 the so-called Private <a href="/tags/insurance/" rel="tag">#Insurance</a> Industry was greenlighted massive increases to premiums and the associated payments of co-insurance & deductibles. The 2026 budget will scrap virtually all of <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> and most of <a href="/tags/medicare/" rel="tag">#Medicare</a> right after this year's midterm <a href="/tags/elections/" rel="tag">#elections</a>. Particularly in rural areas, upward of 40% of hospital revenues come from Medicaid reimbursements which will abruptly cease. HUNDREDS OF HOSPITALS NATIONWIDE are likely to shut down and, in some areas, nearly all will sharply reduce critical services like primary care, emergency rooms, OB/GYN, pharmacy, dialysis, and pediatrics. Many of these particular services will be consolidated to other <a href="/tags/hospitals/" rel="tag">#hospitals</a> far away with no transportation provided. Thousands will die, tens of thousands will be impoverished, as a direct result. A national <a href="/tags/economic/" rel="tag">#economic</a> failure is more than merely likely. And without good cause; only to crush the Public and to transfer away the remains of its <a href="/tags/wealth/" rel="tag">#wealth</a> - our <a href="/tags/savings/" rel="tag">#savings</a>, our <a href="/tags/investments/" rel="tag">#investments</a> - for <a href="/tags/redistribution/" rel="tag">#redistribution</a> to the untaxed parasites who create nothing, to further ensure that their next six generations will be exempted from the Social Compact.</p><p>TrumpRx Denounced as Corrupt Scheme to Line Pockets of Big Pharma—and Don Jr.</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumprx-prescription-drugs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.commondreams.org/news/trumprx-prescription-drugs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.commondreams.org/news/trum</span><span class="invisible">prx-prescription-drugs</span></a></p><p>> "Trump has dressed up yet another corporate giveaway as a boon to <a href="/tags/patients/" rel="tag">#patients</a>," said one watchdog. "Real drug price reform doesn’t look like a website."</p>
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<p>New Law Increases Oversight of Arizona Sober Living Homes<br>—</p><p>The legislation follows a ProPublica and Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting investigation on a $2 billion Medicaid fraud scheme that targeted Native Americans seeking drug and alcohol treatment.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-sober-living-homes-oversight-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/arizona-sober-living-homes-oversight-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ari</span><span class="invisible">zona-sober-living-homes-oversight-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/arizona/" rel="tag">#Arizona</a> <a href="/tags/native/" rel="tag">#Native</a> <a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/fraud/" rel="tag">#Fraud</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/addiction/" rel="tag">#Addiction</a></p>
<p>Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis<br>---</p><p>The recent government shutdown, with families skipping meals and babies unfed, could have been a preview of what’s to come when Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill shifts billions in costs for the SNAP program to states that may not be able to afford them.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/food-stamps-crisis-snap-big-beautiful-bill-state-tax-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/food-stamps-crisis-snap-big-beautiful-bill-state-tax-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/foo</span><span class="invisible">d-stamps-crisis-snap-big-beautiful-bill-state-tax-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/snap/" rel="tag">#SNAP</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#Poverty</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#Food</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/tax/" rel="tag">#Tax</a></p>
<p>Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says<br>---</p><p>Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/geo</span><span class="invisible">rgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#Poverty</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a></p>
<p>The Trump Nominee Whose Company Is Suing the Trump Administration<br>---</p><p>A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination as Ambassador to Hungary, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now, the facility is suing to stop collection.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/benjamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/benjamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ben</span><span class="invisible">jamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/lawsuit/" rel="tag">#Lawsuit</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>NEW: Powerful <a href="/tags/wisconsin/" rel="tag">#Wisconsin</a> Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had repeatedly blocked lawmakers from voting on a bipartisan bill to extend postpartum <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> coverage. </p><p>The legislation now goes to Gov. Tony Evers, who is expected to sign it into law.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-postpartum-medicaid-new-mothers-robin-vos?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=2-19" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-postpartum-medicaid-new-mothers-robin-vos?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=2-19"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/wis</span><span class="invisible">consin-postpartum-medicaid-new-mothers-robin-vos?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=2-19</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#parents</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/mom/" rel="tag">#mom</a></p>
<p>WATCH: “Keep the family healthy.” Those were some of the last words Clifford Thomas’ mother said to him.</p><p>But in Albany, a town with a health care monopoly and no Medicaid expansion, staying healthy is a luxury that many are priced out of.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgCsj9nDZQ" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgCsj9nDZQ"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgCsj</span><span class="invisible">9nDZQ</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/documentary/" rel="tag">#Documentary</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#Video</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/insurance/" rel="tag">#Insurance</a> <a href="/tags/blackmastodon/" rel="tag">#BlackMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a></p>