Katheryn Houghton
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A cancer survivor hoped to work — then she Lost her Medicaid disability coverage (opens the original)
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Taya Hailstone has been in remission from childhood Hodgkin lymphoma for five years. But the cancer’s lasting damage to her organs and nerves can make basic tasks, like loading a dishwasher, hard. Still, Montana’s health department decided last year that Hailstone is no longer eligible for low-cost disability health coverage through Medicaid. The department switched her coverage to the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program, another Medicaid program — three months before she aged out. Befor
A cancer survivor hoped to work — then she lost her Medicaid disability coverage (opens the original)
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Taya Hailstone has been in remission from childhood Hodgkin lymphoma for five years. But the cancer's lasting damage to her organs and nerves can make basic tasks, like loading a dishwasher, hard. Still, Montana's health department decided last year that Hailstone is no longer eligible for low-cost disability health coverage through Medicaid. The department switched her coverage to the state's Children's Health Insurance Program, another Medicaid program — three months before she aged out. Befor
Top Iran official says U.S. focus on economic warfare shows it has failed militarily (opens the original)
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The Iranian regime has dismissed President Trump's threats to crush Iran economically, saying that years of U.S. sanctions have failed. On Friday, Iran's parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, the country's main negotiator with the U.S., said Trump's threat of an "economic D-Day" shows that Washington is unable to prevail militarily. "The Americans and the Israelis have realized that they cannot handle Iran … in the field of a hard military war, so they have entered into a cognitive wa
Medicaid work rule leaves homeless people in the cold (opens the original)
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MISSOULA, Mont. — Tywon Pugh has seizures that make it hard to find and keep a job. "They called me a 'liability to the job site,'" Pugh said, recalling the words of his manager when a seizure cost him his last job at a fast-food restaurant in this western Montana city. When the 46-year-old lost work in the past, his wife of 10 years covered their rent and he tended to their home until he found another job. But his wife died last year. Soon after, Pugh became homeless. His problem with alcohol b
Medicaid Work Rule Leaves Homeless People in the Cold (opens the original)
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The Trump administration is launching work requirements for many Medicaid recipients, going further than what some conservative states asked for. In Montana, Katheryn Houghton with our partner KFF Health News reports. KATHERYN HOUGHTON: For decades, Medicaid has provided low-cost health coverage to people who otherwise can't afford it, qualifying mainly dependent on income. But by January, millions of people will have to prove they're working, volunteering or going to school to keep Medicaid ben
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