Waiting Game for Medicaid Applicants

Waiting game for Medicaid applicants
Since Oct. 1, the state has received about 17,000 applications for Medicaid through the new website, benefits.ohio.gov, said Sam Rossi, spokesman for Ohio's Department of Medicaid. More than 50,000 unique visits have been made to the website. … than …
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Families pay the price of addiction
She explained she would not give him cash, and would only help him pay bills by making direct payments to his landlord or utility companies. “It never dawned on me that if I paid his bills, he could use the money he did have for drugs. That was part of …
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'Gimme Shelter' leaves viewers wondering what comes next
Agnes (Vanessa Hudgens) is 16 and poor, the daughter of a drug addict (Rosario Dawson) who had her too young. Agnes, who decides she wants to be called “Apple,” is all piercings, ill-fitting dirty clothes and tattoos. And if she needs a case study in …
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Rethinking the prison system
The obsession with getting high and the myth that drug use is a recreational activity are more than a generation deep in American society. When drug users are released from prison, it is likely that many return to the same lifestyle that led to …
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