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How Kentucky's Cuts to Medicaid Recipients' Vision and Dental Care Affects More Than Just Their Health

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Dental health has profound effects on quality of life, overall well-being, and economic security.
A wonky change could have big effects on the future of the program.
The health-care waiting game continues.
Political scientist Jamila Michener talks about how state-level changes to Medicaid benefits can politically disempower its recipients.
Repealing the ACA isn’t the only way to dial back the law’s Medicaid expansions—and destroy the program itself.
And so the health-care policy merry-go-round continues.
Denying health insurance to people just means that, when those unavoidable hospital visits do occur, uninsured patients and the communities those patients live in will suffer.

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