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Medicaid helps America’s families stay healthy and our communities thrive. It provides health insurance to low-income children and adults, seniors and people with disabilities, so that millions of people can get the health care they need to get healthy and stay healthy. It allows them to see a doctor when they are sick, get check-ups, buy medications and go to the hospital. Medicaid keeps hospital doors open to provide lifesaving care for people with cancer and other diseases, secures more jobs in our communities and helps America become a healthier, more prosperous nation. Hear the stories of our families, friends and neighbors as well as health care professionals from across the country. Hear how Medicaid Covers US.

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Voices from the Health Coverage Gap in Wyoming: Tania Malone

Tania Malone describes how Medicaid has helped her live a better life, what it was like to live in the Medicaid coverage gap, and what it was like to lose her Medicaid coverage in the Public Health Emergency unwinding.

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Voices from the Health Coverage Gap in Wyoming: Angela Dax

Angela Dax describes what it's like to live in the Medicaid coverage gap in Wyoming.

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This Is WY: Voices from the Health Coverage Gap

Tania Malone (Douglas, WY), Angie Dax (Casper, WY), and Zina Regan (Riverton, WY) describe what it is like to live in the Medicaid coverage gap in Wyoming, one of the only states to not have expanded Medicaid (2023).

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Cristy: NC

Cristy had congestive heart failure. Even though she was working full time, she wasn’t offered health insurance through her job, and she made too much to qualify for Medicaid. Because she couldn’t get the treatment she needed, Christy died of a heart attack at just 36 years old; leaving behind three young children.

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Stephanie: Kinston, NC

Stephanie is a registered nurse at the Kinston Community Health Center. She sees every day the difference that having health insurance can make for someone who needs specialty care.

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Hope in the Heartland: Colter Quinn

The only child of a single mother, Colter cherished the strong relationship he had with his mother, Rosey. After his mom was diagnosed with cancer, Colter dropped out of college and moved home to Hartford, South Dakota to care for her.

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Hope in the Heartland: Scott Lantz

A longtime resident of Rapid City, South Dakota, Scott was working full-time at a local store when he hurt his back loading goods into a customer’s car. His doctor limited his work hours while he recovered, but after a few months of part-time work, he lost access to his insurance benefits

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Hope in the Heartland: Sarah Nelson

A mother of two children in Black Hawk, South Dakota, Sarah was unable to afford the high premium for her employer-sponsored health insurance so she had to go without coverage for herself. A few months after declining coverage, she started having health issues that led to a diabetes diagnosis and ongoing treatment for a painful skin lesion.

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Hope in the Heartland: Closing the Health Care Gap

Too many South Dakotans go without health care as families struggle to afford medical bills while the cost of food and housing rise. This short documentary explores how Medicaid would be a lifeline for residents caught in the health coverage gap and what voters can do to help.