- Kentucky’s embrace of private Medicaid plans leads to complaints, By Jenni Bergal, July 13, 2013, Washington Post: “Kaden Stone loves playing baseball, riding his bike and watching ‘Duck Dynasty’ on TV at his red-brick ranch-style house in rural, south-central Kentucky. Despite his energy, the tiny boy of 8 with a crew cut and missing front tooth can’t eat much, the result of congenital bowel problems that have required dozens of surgeries and procedures. He needs PediaSure, says his mother, who was shocked when Kaden’s Medicaid managed-care plan stopped paying last fall for the expensive nutritional drink, saying it was not ‘medically necessary…'”
- Alternate health insurance plan for poor could cost more than Medicaid expansion, By Wayne Greene, July 14, 2013, Tulsa World: “One of the toughest tasks before advocates of a plan to use federal and state money to purchase private insurance coverage for poor Oklahomans will be convincing legislative skeptics – and the federal government – that it won’t cost more than expanding Medicaid. Last month, Leavitt Partners presented a report to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority for several changes, including a private insurance subsidy plan…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty