Who Gets Food Stamps? White People, Mostly
WASHINGTON — Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are…
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‘Get your government hands off my Obamacare’
That’s almost exactly what happened in 2009 and 2010 when conservatives fought President Obama’s health care proposal by warning that it would require cuts to Medicare. In recent months, we’ve…
More States Lean Toward Medicaid Expansion
This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts that provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state…
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Expands Medicaid Under Obamacare
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on Tuesday became the latest Republican governor to accept an expansion of Medicaid to cover more poor residents under the Affordable Care Act. Like the expansions…
High Rates of Opioid Prescriptions Among Women Raise Alarm
The federal health authorities reported Thursday that nearly one third of women of reproductive age had had an opioid painkiller prescription filled every year between 2008 and 2012. Experts said…