January 5, 2024

California expands Medicaid to all eligible undocumented individuals By Jakob Emerson December 28, 2023   Starting Jan. 1, California will become the first state to offer Medicaid coverage to all eligible undocumented individuals, Cal Matters reported Dec. 28.   The state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, first expanded coverage to undocumented children in 2015 and to individuals […]

Nearly half of every dollar spent by Medicare drug plans goes to private health insurers’ pharmacy benefit managers and wholesalers By Wendell Potter January 5th, 2024   As members of Congress get back to business after the holidays, they seem to be poised to pass legislation that would address some of the abuses of pharmacy

At least 13 million people lost Medicaid this year, with Texas an epicenter of the ‘unwinding’ By Inyoung Choi and Arleen Aguasvivas and Zinhle Essamuah December 31, 2023   Erica Olenski, a single mother of three in McKinney, Texas, juggles the responsibilities of parenthood and a full-time job, in addition to the demands of her