WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The numbers are devastating: almost 2,000 poor kids in Texas with cancer, another 18,000 with diabetes and more than 350,000 suffering from chronic lung disease, heart disease or stroke. What sounds like a grim statistical report on poverty and disease is actually a lobbying message from Medicaid…
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