Medicaid
Denied Workers’ Comp at 32 and $34,000 in Debt — How Roy Gutierrez Fell Into Florida’s Medicaid Gap After an On-the-Job Injury
Approximately one in seven workers’ compensation claims filed across the United States is denied at…
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He Earned Six Figures and Still Had No Health Insurance — What I Learned When I Met Diego Whitfield at the SSA Office
The waiting room of Tucson’s Social Security Administration office on South Sixth Avenue is the…
Housing
He Earned More But Lost His Prescriptions — One Omaha Man’s Rude Awakening About Medicaid and the Income Cliff
The first thing Pastor Darnell Webb told me about Miguel Fulton was that he never…
Housing
A Legal Secretary Making $21,400 a Year Had No Health Insurance for Four Months — Medi-Cal Was the Answer He Didn’t Know Existed
Harvey Tran was sitting in his car outside an urgent care clinic in East San…
Housing
No Retirement Savings, a Crumbling Roof, and $4,800 Overdue in Property Taxes — How One San Jose Father Is Holding On
What would you do if you owned a home but couldn’t afford to keep it…
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Her COBRA Premium Cost More Than Her Rent. A Waiting Room Conversation Changed Everything
The waiting rooms of Social Security Administration offices have a particular kind of silence —…
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Her Health Insurance Premiums Nearly Doubled Running a Barber Shop in Texas — Here Is What the Medicaid Coverage Gap Actually Cost Her
The morning I met Theresa Pruitt, she was sitting across from me at a corner…
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She Thought She Made Too Much for Medi-Cal. A Benefits Navigator Showed Her She Was Wrong
The Medi-Cal enrollment table at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library branch in San…
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COBRA Cost Us More Than Rent After My Husband’s Layoff — The Medicaid Option Nobody Told Us About
The assumption that COBRA is your automatic safety net after losing employer health insurance is…
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He Retired From USPS at 31 After a Cardiac Emergency — Getting Missouri Medicaid Took Four Months and Two Appeals
Missouri’s MO HealthNet enrollment has grown substantially since the state expanded Medicaid under the Affordable…