Everyone survived, but Laurie would never be the same again. She had suffered a severe brain injury that left her in a coma-like state for nearly a month. When Laurie emerged from the coma, her personality had changed — a common effect of traumatic brain injuries. Read More
VISITOR7/WIKIMEDIA-TINYURL.COM/J6O4LKN Listen Nearly 20,000 people have been removed from Washington’s Medicaid rolls for ineligibility. The purge happened after the state stepped up efforts to verify residency and income levels. Over the summer, Washington’s Health Care Authority experimented with using the research firm LexisNexis as an additional way to check the Read More
Listen Washington and Oregon are making contingency plans in case Congress doesn’t reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which is for low-income families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid. Funding for CHIP expired in September. Since then the program has been operating on a month-to-month basis with leftover federal funds. For years the… Read More