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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Oct 13, 2017 at 06:51 AM PDT
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CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program provides insurance through state and federal funding for children through age 18
if their parents don’t qualify for Medicaid but can’t afford private insurance.
It covers 9 million kids and expires...
by chichagof
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on Thu Sep 28, 2017 at 08:45 AM PDT
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Just 2 days ago I noted that the Arizona state Senate was refusing to vote to reinstate the KidsCare program (aka, Arizona's name for the federal CHIP program) for absolutely no legitimate reason, since the program a) would provide 30,000 low-income...
by Brainwrap
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on Fri May 06, 2016 at 12:51 PM PDT
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There are several comments/diaries here that stipulate that while Bernie may not be able to get anything done, neither will Hillary.
I am going to vote for Hillary Clinton, in part because
by SevenStrings
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on Thu Jan 28, 2016 at 04:03 PM PST
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(Cross Posted at The Makeshift Academic )
Since the Supreme Court made the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion optional, many state legislatures and governors; well at least many of them ...
by Fake Irishman
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on Sun Apr 27, 2014 at 07:36 AM PDT
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OK, the Medicaid situation is, to put it mildly... confusing. For most of the states I simply swapped out whatever numbers were there from the November report for the Dec. 28 total. However, there ...
by Brainwrap
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on Mon Jan 13, 2014 at 06:39 PM PST
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Last night, AlexcSinger posted this diary quoting the Wall Street Journal as claiming that:
So far, private health plans have received enrollment data for 40,000 to 50,000 users of the federal ...
by Brainwrap
9 comments
on Tue Nov 12, 2013 at 05:41 AM PST
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AlexcSinger just posted this diary , quoting the Wall Street Journal:
So far, private health plans have received enrollment data for 40,000 to 50,000 users of the federal marketplace, the people ...
by Brainwrap
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on Mon Nov 11, 2013 at 05:13 PM PST
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The other day Politico ran this story ahead of next week's release of the first *official* Obamacare enrollment figures:
Sebelius says Obamacare enrollment 'very low'
Health and Human Services ...
by Brainwrap
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on Fri Nov 08, 2013 at 09:13 AM PST
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So, yesterday Politico ran this story ahead of next week's release of the first *official* Obamacare enrollment figures:
Sebelius says Obamacare enrollment 'very low'
Health and Human Services ...
by Brainwrap
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on Thu Nov 07, 2013 at 08:03 AM PST
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Thanks to the latest eyebrow-raising numbers out of California, the ObamacareSignups.net tally--including Medicaid expansion--now stands at 1,622,521 .
I should note that the big numbers from both ...
by Brainwrap
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on Tue Nov 05, 2013 at 04:39 PM PST
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Thanks to the latest eyebrow-raising numbers out of California , the ObamacareSignups.net tally--including Medicaid expansion--now stands at 1,519,979 .
It's important to understand that sources ...
by Brainwrap
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on Sun Nov 03, 2013 at 05:36 AM PST
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As of today, the ObamacareSignups.net tally now stands at 974,539 .
It's important to understand that sources and methodology for this sort of tracking is going to vary widely, depending on what ...
by Brainwrap
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on Sat Nov 02, 2013 at 02:11 PM PDT
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As of today, the ObamacareSignups.net tally now stands at 941,458 .
It's important to understand that sources and methodology for this sort of tracking is going to vary widely, depending on what ...
by Brainwrap
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on Fri Nov 01, 2013 at 01:07 PM PDT
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Thanks in large part to the tireless efforts of ArcticStones in particular (along with help from the other state-watchers listed below the fold), the ObamacareSignups.net numbers are starting to ...
by Brainwrap
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on Thu Oct 31, 2013 at 07:45 AM PDT
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Thanks in large part to the tireless efforts of ArcticStones in particular (along with help from the other state-watchers listed below the fold), the ObamacareSignups.net numbers are starting to ...
by Brainwrap
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on Wed Oct 30, 2013 at 12:02 PM PDT
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Now that Mr. Akin is in this for the long haul (the next 38 news cycles), the time has arrived to state that which has smoldered in me since he became nationally famous. This diary's purpose is to ...
by bollweevil
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on Sat Sep 29, 2012 at 04:00 AM PDT
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On the eve of Barack Obama's address at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, a media cottage industry has emerged examining why the President "failed to change the tone in Washington." Writing ...
by Jon Perr
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on Tue Sep 04, 2012 at 01:45 PM PDT
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All of official Washington is scratching a collective head about why Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan as his running mate. Conventional wisdom is that any day Romney is not talking about the economy, he ...
by Jimmy Zuma
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on Thu Aug 16, 2012 at 04:37 PM PDT
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It's rare that a criminal publicly announces his intent to commit a felony. But when it came to their scorched-earth campaign of obstructionism to destroy the Obama presidency, GOP leaders weren't ...
by Jon Perr
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on Wed May 23, 2012 at 12:59 PM PDT
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