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As Senate rushes ahead, the missing debate over Medicaid poses dire risks for rural, elderly Americans [CenterForHealthJournalism.org]

 

Has the conversation swirling around replacing the Affordable Care Act focused on the wrong thing?

For weeks the steady stream of tweets, studies, numbers, and pleas to save Obamacare has largely focused on the people who gained coverage through the health law’s state insurance exchanges. But under the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, in my view the most important feature of the law, far more people gained health insurance coverage. For millions of people, that was the first time in their lives they got insurance and care they never had before. 



[For more of this story, written  by Trudy Lieberman, go to https://www.centerforhealthjou...al-elderly-americans]

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