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Health Care Reporter on Capitol Hill for @POLITICOPro/@POLITICO. Making puns about the news. Write to me: aollstein@politico.com
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How sick is sick enough? New Medicaid work rule worries patient advocates, states.

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By Alice Ollstein , Robert King 
| POLITICO
Patient advocacy groups, physicians and state officials say they fear that chronically ill people, whose ability to work often fluctuates, will fall through the cracks and become uninsured at a time when they most need care. “Having a work requirement for patients with cancer, frail or not, puts them in a precarious position,” said Ben Pezeshki, a primary care physician and medical director of the clinic Sequoia Quality Health in Los Angeles.
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How sick is sick enough? New Medicaid work rule worries patient advocates, states

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By Alice Ollstein , Robert King
| Yahoo
The 40 plus states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act thought they knew what to expect when Republican's One Big Beautiful Bill Act outlined last year which low-income residents might be shielded from work requirements because they are too "medically frail." Last week they were hit with a big surprise.
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States balk at the high price of Medicaid work requirements amid budget crunch

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By Robert King, Alice Ollstein 
| Flipboard
Israel: Where every era remains open in another Internet Explorer browser tab So last week, Shlomit from the insurance company told me I needed to fax my hospital documents in order to get reimbursed for my latest emergency …
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