Nebraska rushed Medicaid work rules. Then a cancer patient was told he’d lost coverage.
By Rachana Pradhan Eli McCreary of Omaha, Neb., said he had recently been diagnosed with kidney cancer when he got a call from a local hospital run by CHI Health. He said he was informed that he wasn’t insured anymore under Medicaid — and that the hospital would cancel his appointments unless he paid out-of-pocket.…
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