politics
Federal Budget Changes Complicate State Efforts to Extend Medicaid Into Jails and Prisons
Funding cuts and program changes in the new federal budget law are pressing states to reconsider bipartisan initiatives that would have brought Medicaid coverage to incarcerated people.
Why We Ran This
This story restores the frame around a population rarely in view, incarcerated people, whose access to healthcare is quietly being reshaped by federal budget decisions most readers won't encounter e
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