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Emma Ricketts

Posted inHealth

Medicaid Patients Struggle to Access Mental Health Care

by Emma Ricketts September 17, 2022September 26, 2022

arlier this summer, Illinois expanded Medicaid coverage to undocumented adults 42 and older. Hundreds of immigrants who became eligible have already signed up for the low-income healthcare subsidy program, which serves 3.3 million people in the state and 1.6 million in Cook County alone. Yet any Medicaid recipients who attempt to access mental health care […]

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