Without Medicaid Expansion, Poor Forgo Medical Care

Low-income people in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid are much more likely to forgo needed medical care than the poor in other states, according to a government report due out Monday amid election debates from Georgia to Utah over coverage for the needy. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office worked with the National Center for Health Statistics to analyze federal survey data from 2016. (Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press)

       

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