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Attorneys General Support Florida Ban on Medicaid Payments for Gender Transition Procedures

Attorneys General Support Florida Ban on Medicaid Payments for Gender Transition Procedures

By Mary Stroka (The Center Square) Seventeen attorneys general have filed an amicus brief supporting Florida’s healthcare regulation that denies Medicaid coverage for gender transitioning procedures. They’re supporting Florida’s motion for summary judgment in the lawsuit August Dekker v. Jason Weida in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida …

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‘We’re Going Away’: A State’s Choice to Forgo Medicaid Funds Is Killing Hospitals

‘We’re Going Away’: A State’s Choice to Forgo Medicaid Funds Is Killing Hospitals

GREENWOOD, Miss. — Since its opening in a converted wood-frame mansion 117 years ago, Greenwood Leflore Hospital had become a medical hub for this part of Mississippi’s fertile but impoverished Delta, with 208 beds, an intensive-care unit, a string of walk-in clinics and a modern brick-and-glass building. But on a …

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