On May 2, Governor Tomblin held a press conference at St. Francis Hospital to announce that West Virginia will be expanding the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act to cover families up to 138% of the Federal Poverty Line. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) ’is aimed at increasing the rate of health insurance coverage for Americans and reducing the overall [read more]
Did you know that our state has the opportunity to draw federal funds to provide health care for 120,000 working families? If Gov. Tomblin says “yes” to Medicaid Expansion, the Federal Government will provide more than 90-100 percent of the costs to pay for health insurance for families who are working, but making less than [read more]
Affordable Care Act ,enacted in March 2010, is changing health care and leaving people with a lot of questions. In order to help with these changes the federal government has developed a website to help answer all your questions and to help you find affordable health insurance. HealthCare.gov
Medicaid is a federal health insurance program that helps more than 400,000 low income children, disabled, and elderly people in West Virginia. Medicaid is a very complicated program that is often hard to understand. The WV Center on Budget and Policy Priorities recently released a report entitled Medicaid Made Simple. The report is written for [read more]
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In WV and many other states you may qualify for a free cell phone if you recieve food stamps (snap), free lunch, school clothing vouchers, Medicaid, section 8, welfare, CHIPS, or other public assistance. The program is called LifeLine. To find out more visit one of the sites below to apply. Safelink Assurance Sprint AT&T Search by state [read more]
The health reform bill called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed by Congress in 2010 has many new benefits. The new law will be phased in through 2014 and beyond. There are benefits starting in 2010 which will help many West Virginians. Have you been denied health coverage because you have heart disease, cancer [read more]
DHHR recently announced that the Mountain Health Choices program will end in September and families will be returned to traditional Medicaid. As our many readers and friends of DAWG know, we have been trying to make the state see that this Medicaid program (Mountain Health Choices), which targeted poor families with children, was not the [read more]
Survey Results Show Medicaid Recipients Do NOT Understandthe New Medicaid Program – Mountain Health Choices In May 2006, West Virginia received approval from the federal government to redesign the state’s Medicaid program. The new Medicaid program known as Mountain Health Choices was implemented in three counties, Clay, Upshur, and Lincoln in March 2007 and went statewide in [read more]