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More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since pandemic protections ended on April 1. And a KFF Health News analysis of state data shows the vast majority were removed from state rolls for not completing paperwork.
Under normal circumstances, states review their Medicaid enrollment lists regularly to ensure every recipient qualifies for coverage. But because of a nationwide pause in those reviews during the pandemic, the health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans kept people covered even if they no longer qualified.
Now, in what’s known as the Medicaid unwinding, states are combing through rolls and deciding who stays and who goes. People who are no longer eligible or don’t complete paperwork in time will be dropped. | |
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The Australian comedian turns curator in a show about Picasso’s complicated legacy. But it’s women artists the exhibition really shortchanges. | |
Submitted at 06-02-2023, 03:08 PM by nocash | |
Last term, the two centrist senators publicly shaped nearly every piece of major legislation. They revived the act on the debt limit — but this time, they stayed behind the scenes (someone told them to shut the fuck up and they did). | |
Submitted at 06-02-2023, 02:41 PM by Mordant | |
Arizona officials announced Thursday the state will no longer grant certifications for new developments within the Phoenix area, as groundwater rapidly disappears amid years of water overuse and climate change-driven drought.
A new study showed that the groundwater supporting the Phoenix area likely can’t meet additional development demand in the coming century, officials said at a news conference. Gov. Katie Hobbs and the state’s top water officials outlined the results of the study looking at groundwater demand within the Phoenix metro area, which is regulated by a state law that tries to ensure Arizona’s housing developments, businesses and farms are not using more groundwater than is being replaced.
The study found that around 4% of the area’s demand for groundwater, close to 4.9 million acre-feet, cannot be met over the next 100 years under current conditions – a huge shortage that will have significant implications for housing developments in the coming years in the booming Phoenix metro area, which has led the nation in population growth. | |
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Search efforts for Cameron Robbins went on for approximately three days before being called off. | |
Submitted at 06-02-2023, 03:10 AM by John Holmes Boxxyfucker | |
Left-wing extremist Lina E.has been found guilty in a German court of leading a series of violent attacks on neo-Nazis. The sprawling trial has sparked controversy and fears of extremism driven by leftist ideology. | |
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Third-party apps like Apollo are being crushed by ridiculous price increases | |
Submitted at 06-01-2023, 07:28 PM by sleeppoor | |
Many hospitals in the United States use aggressive tactics to collect medical debt. They flood local courts with collections lawsuits. They garnish patients’ wages. They seize their tax refunds.
But a wealthy nonprofit health system in the Midwest is among those taking things a step further: withholding care from patients who have unpaid medical bills.
Allina Health System, which runs more than 100 hospitals and clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin and brings in $4 billion a year in revenue, sometimes rejects patients who are deep in debt, according to internal documents and interviews with doctors, nurses and patients.
Although Allina’s hospitals will treat anyone in emergency rooms, other services can be cut off for indebted patients, including children and those with chronic illnesses like diabetes and depression. Patients aren’t allowed back until they pay off their debt entirely. | |
Submitted at 06-01-2023, 07:23 PM by sleeppoor | |
It’s been over a decade since we’ve heard from the elusive White Stripes drummer. Could renewed attention over a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination coax her back into the spotlight? | |
Submitted at 06-01-2023, 06:46 PM by katheudo | |
The court heard a graphic description of the abuse | |
Submitted at 06-01-2023, 06:09 PM by John Holmes Boxxyfucker | |
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An electronic paper trail shows the city was aware of structural problems that needed attention and reveals a sometimes off-hand attitude toward residents' and contractors' concerns about the 80-unit apartment complex that partially collapsed last Sunday. | |
Submitted at 06-01-2023, 04:45 PM by sleeppoor | |
After spending weeks combing through hundreds of flight records, analyzing flight-tracking software and interviewing experts, here are answers to some — but not all — of your spy plane questions. | |
Submitted at 06-01-2023, 03:41 PM by sleeppoor | |
Fatima al-Shawarbi defended political prisoners from an anonymous account and is latest Saudi to be handed a decades-long sentence over online activity | |
Submitted at 06-01-2023, 03:41 PM by sleeppoor | |
It’s said that a naked man fears no pickpocket — but he should probably still be wary of riverbeds.
A video making the rounds on Twitter on Wednesday morning shows a man — fully nude except for a pair of boots — attempting to dislodge his Dodge Ram from the bed of the Elbow River or a stream near Weaselhead Flats, a protected natural area located west of the Glenmore Reservoir near the ring road and Calgary’s western city limits.
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Submitted at 06-01-2023, 03:28 PM by NickNoheart | |
I dropped dead during a hockey game. I couldn’t remember anything. Then I discovered there was video.
I was morbidly thrilled: I had lived long enough to watch myself die. | |
Submitted at 06-01-2023, 03:26 AM by katheudo | |
With United States v. Smith (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2023), a district court judge in New York made history by being the first court to rule that a warrant is required for a cell phone search at the border, “absent exigent circumstances” (although other district courts have wanted to do so). | |
Submitted at 06-01-2023, 03:00 AM by Nibbles | |
“We’re always listening and will continue to do so, but we’re happy with how the first month of having more people back in the office has been,” writes Glasser, the Amazon spokesperson. “There's more energy, collaboration, and connections happening, and we’ve heard this from lots of employees and the businesses that surround our offices.” | |
Submitted at 06-01-2023, 02:56 AM by Nibbles | |
A divided U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to suspend the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling on Wednesday, with majority support from both Democrats and Republicans to overcome opposition led by hardline conservatives and avoid a catastrophic default. | |
Submitted at 06-01-2023, 02:04 AM by sleeppoor | |

More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since pandemic protections ended on April 1. And a KFF Health News analysis of state data shows the vast majority were removed from state rolls for not completing paperwork.
Under normal circumstances, states review their Medicaid enrollment lists regularly to ensure every recipient qualifies for coverage. But because of a nationwide pause in those reviews during the pandemic, the health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans kept people covered even if they no longer qualified.
Now, in what’s known as the Medicaid unwinding, states are combing through rolls and deciding who stays and who goes. People who are no longer eligible or don’t complete paperwork in time will be dropped.
The Australian comedian turns curator in a show about Picasso’s complicated legacy. But it’s women artists the exhibition really shortchanges.
Last term, the two centrist senators publicly shaped nearly every piece of major legislation. They revived the act on the debt limit — but this time, they stayed behind the scenes (someone told them to shut the fuck up and they did).
Arizona officials announced Thursday the state will no longer grant certifications for new developments within the Phoenix area, as groundwater rapidly disappears amid years of water overuse and climate change-driven drought.
A new study showed that the groundwater supporting the Phoenix area likely can’t meet additional development demand in the coming century, officials said at a news conference. Gov. Katie Hobbs and the state’s top water officials outlined the results of the study looking at groundwater demand within the Phoenix metro area, which is regulated by a state law that tries to ensure Arizona’s housing developments, businesses and farms are not using more groundwater than is being replaced.
The study found that around 4% of the area’s demand for groundwater, close to 4.9 million acre-feet, cannot be met over the next 100 years under current conditions – a huge shortage that will have significant implications for housing developments in the coming years in the booming Phoenix metro area, which has led the nation in population growth.
Search efforts for Cameron Robbins went on for approximately three days before being called off.
Left-wing extremist Lina E.has been found guilty in a German court of leading a series of violent attacks on neo-Nazis. The sprawling trial has sparked controversy and fears of extremism driven by leftist ideology.
Third-party apps like Apollo are being crushed by ridiculous price increases
Many hospitals in the United States use aggressive tactics to collect medical debt. They flood local courts with collections lawsuits. They garnish patients’ wages. They seize their tax refunds.
But a wealthy nonprofit health system in the Midwest is among those taking things a step further: withholding care from patients who have unpaid medical bills.
Allina Health System, which runs more than 100 hospitals and clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin and brings in $4 billion a year in revenue, sometimes rejects patients who are deep in debt, according to internal documents and interviews with doctors, nurses and patients.
Although Allina’s hospitals will treat anyone in emergency rooms, other services can be cut off for indebted patients, including children and those with chronic illnesses like diabetes and depression. Patients aren’t allowed back until they pay off their debt entirely.
It’s been over a decade since we’ve heard from the elusive White Stripes drummer. Could renewed attention over a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination coax her back into the spotlight?
The court heard a graphic description of the abuse
An electronic paper trail shows the city was aware of structural problems that needed attention and reveals a sometimes off-hand attitude toward residents' and contractors' concerns about the 80-unit apartment complex that partially collapsed last Sunday.
After spending weeks combing through hundreds of flight records, analyzing flight-tracking software and interviewing experts, here are answers to some — but not all — of your spy plane questions.
Fatima al-Shawarbi defended political prisoners from an anonymous account and is latest Saudi to be handed a decades-long sentence over online activity
It’s said that a naked man fears no pickpocket — but he should probably still be wary of riverbeds.
A video making the rounds on Twitter on Wednesday morning shows a man — fully nude except for a pair of boots — attempting to dislodge his Dodge Ram from the bed of the Elbow River or a stream near Weaselhead Flats, a protected natural area located west of the Glenmore Reservoir near the ring road and Calgary’s western city limits.
I dropped dead during a hockey game. I couldn’t remember anything. Then I discovered there was video.
I was morbidly thrilled: I had lived long enough to watch myself die.
With United States v. Smith (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2023), a district court judge in New York made history by being the first court to rule that a warrant is required for a cell phone search at the border, “absent exigent circumstances” (although other district courts have wanted to do so).
“We’re always listening and will continue to do so, but we’re happy with how the first month of having more people back in the office has been,” writes Glasser, the Amazon spokesperson. “There's more energy, collaboration, and connections happening, and we’ve heard this from lots of employees and the businesses that surround our offices.”
A divided U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to suspend the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling on Wednesday, with majority support from both Democrats and Republicans to overcome opposition led by hardline conservatives and avoid a catastrophic default.