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Some Missourians could lose Medicaid coverage as eligibility renewals restart April 1

2 years 6 months ago
Missouri’s social services department will resume conducting Medicaid eligibility renewals on April 1 — allowing the state to once again remove people from its rolls after a three-year pause during the COVID-19 state of emergency. Since March 2020, states have been barred from removing enrollees from Medicaid during the federally-declared public health emergency in exchange [...]
Clara Bates, Missouri Independent

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

2 years 6 months ago
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy with a comment about the FBI advisor who attacked Signal for its refusal to collect user metadata: ‘How dare you close the curtains, I was looking in those!’ I love how a company that collects as little as possible information on […]
Leigh Beadon

An economist tells us to listen up: inflation is now low

2 years 6 months ago
Alan Blinder, a Real Economist™, says that inflation is way down: Over the past five months (June to November 2022), inflation has slowed to a crawl. Whether measured by the consumer-price index, or CPI, which most people watch, or the price index for personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, which the Federal Reserve prefers, the annualized ...continue reading "An economist tells us to listen up: inflation is now low"
Kevin Drum