The doctors called. Nobody picked up.
Montana dropped a 19-year-old cancer survivor from Medicaid disability coverage without ever calling her treating physicians.
Source article: Montana drops cancer survivor's Medicaid disability coverage.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- health, government policy, welfare, disease and condition, health treatment and procedure
- Storylines
- aca-medicaid-healthcare-crisis
- Primary entities
- Taya Hailstone, Kyla Hailstone, Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program, Social Security Administration, KFF Health News, Families USA, Congressional Budget Office, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Megan Dishong, Montana Legal Services Association, Pamela Herd, University of Michigan, Anthony Wright, Jon Ebelt
- Themes
- Medicaid disability coverage, Federal work requirements, State administrative capacity, Disability determinations, Medical frailty exemptions, Bureaucratic obstacles to public benefits
- Floor values engaged
- human_life_and_dignity, Accountability of power, Equality & fairness