Health Safety Net Programs – IRP Poverty Dispatch

Clock ticking on federal funding for CHIP, other health safety net programs, By Kate Giammarise and Sean D. Hamill, September 26, 2017, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Federal funding for several health care safety-net programs is set to expire at the end of the week unless Congress takes action — a prospect that is looking increasingly less likely, advocates say, as the clock ticks and congressional energy is consumed by an 11th-hour attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act…”
Medicaid covers all that? It’s more than just health care for the poor, By Phil Galewitz, September 27, 2017, Governing: “When high levels of lead were discovered in the public water system in Flint, Mich., in 2015, Medicaid stepped in to help thousands of children get tested for poisoning and receive care. When disabled children need to get to doctors’ appointments — either across town or hundreds of miles away — Medicaid pays for their transportation. When middle-class older Americans deplete their savings to pay for costly nursing home care, Medicaid offers coverage. The United States has become a Medicaid nation…”