Tag: Medicaid expansion

Senior carpenter having back pain stock photo

Picture an older warehouse worker whose back pain might qualify him for a federal cash benefit for his disability. If he’s right and his application is approved, he would get the Medicare health insurance he needs to manage his condition. But there’s a problem. Applicants often quit their jobs to strengthen the case for disability…

Sacramento County building for Department Of Human Assistance. Providng support to low income residents of the state.

In December, North Carolina will become the 40th state to expand its Medicaid program, providing health insurance coverage to some 300,000 more low-income workers, many of them for the first time. It has taken the states a decade to reach that milestone, despite generous funding from the federal government under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)…