Disappointment has taken many forms for recent runners-up.
Under the bill, the federal government would punish states that use their own state dollars to provide Medicaid-covered services to immigrants lacking legal status or to provide subsidies to help them buy health insurance.Some states that provide that sort of coverage extend it only to children.
Those states would see federal funding for the Medicaid expansion population — typically low-income adults — drop from 90% to 80%.That could mean states pull back that Medicaid coverage to avoid the federal penalty, said Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families.the provision could affect 14 states that cover children regardless of their immigration status.
This month the Democratic governor of one of them — California’s Gavin Newsom — announced a plan toof adults in state-funded health care for immigrants who do not have legal status as a budget-balancing measure.
Planned Parenthood says a provision barring it from receiving Medicaid funds could lead to about one-third of its health centers closing.
The group said about 200 centers are at risk — most of them in states where abortion is legal. In those states, the number of Planned Parenthood centers could be cut in half.Associated Press writers Sophia Tareen in Chicago and Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana, contributed to this report.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — More than 2,000 people were ordered to evacuate rural areas north of Argentina’s capital after several days of heavy rainfall flooded highways, farmlands and entire neighborhoods.A bus with 44 passengers was stranded overnight for more than 10 hours on one of the roadways connecting Buenos Aires to the interior.
Between 8 and 15 inches (300 and 400 mm) of rain has fallen in the past 72 hours when the average monthly precipitation is about 1.7 inches, officials said. More wet weather followed by heavy wind is expected and authorities are urging residents, especially the 275,000 near the city of Zarate along the Parana River, to remain indoors.Authorities likened the storm to one in March that