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The Affordable Care Act gives a carrot to states that expand Medicaid from a health insurance program mainly for poor people to one that also includes low-income workers. Under the 2010 law, the federal government initially paid the full cost of adding more people to the Medicaid rolls, and a large majority of states hav…

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With the nation still in the midst of an opioid crisis, a new study provides the first estimate of opioid use among people who apply for disability. One out of every four applicants used opioids in 2017 – below the peak in 2012 but still significantly more than in the general population, according to researchers…