With case rates already ticking up this fall, people most at risk from the coronavirus and its complications — including people of color and the elderly — may not receive the latest boosters, some epidemiologists fear.
More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid in the past couple months as some states moved swiftly to halt health care coverage following the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
At the start of 2022, Thomas Marshall weighed 311 pounds. He had been hospitalized 10 times in five years, including six surgeries. He had an open wound on his left leg that refused to heal — made worse by living in a dirty, moldy house with five other people, two ball pythons, four Chihuahuas and a cage full of rats.
Millions of people who enrolled in Medicaid during the COVID-19 pandemic could start to lose their coverage on April 1 if Congress passes the $1.7 trillion spending package leaders unveiled Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that during the Biden-Harris Administration 253,000 parents have gained access to 12 months of postpartum coverage through Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) extensions.
San Jacinto council hears two annexations and a 151-home tract Oct. 20; Hemet Planning Commission takes up the Rancho Diamante development agreement; Valley-Wide adopts a Winchester CFD tax. Times, places and posted items for Oct. 19-25.