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Medicaid is paying millions for salty, fat-laden ‘medically tailored’ cheeseburgers and sandwiches
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Medicaid is paying millions for salty, fat-laden ‘medically tailored’ cheeseburgers and sandwiches

July 11, 2024 By Nicholas Florko Photography by Anthony Tieuli for STAT Art direction by Alissa Ambrose An assortment of meals from Homestyle Direct WASHINGTON — They’re marketed as healthy, “dietitian-approved” meals and delivered directly to the homes of people seriously ill from cancer, diabetes, or heart disease: a Jimmy Dean frozen sausage breakfast sandwich,...

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The toll dental disease can take

by Helene Ragovin, Tufts University In 2007, a 12-year-old boy from Maryland died after an infection from an untreated dental abscess spread to his brain. His mother, homeless and dependent on Medicaid, had been unable to find a dentist to treat her children’s decaying teeth. Mary Otto, a reporter for the Washington Post, wrote about...