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Poor, employed women suffer loss of insurance under welfare reform.
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Economic Opportunity Report
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April 10, 2006
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Just as the country embarks on a second wave of welfare reform, a new report has shown poor women suffered an unexpected loss of health insurance under the first decade of the plan.
Many women who successfully moved from welfare to work under the 1996 law wound up losing their Medicaid coverage and thereby being uninsured, according to the report from the Rural Policy Research Institute's Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis.
"One of the unintended consequences of welfare reform is that a substantial percentage of former welfare recipients have lost their Medicaid coverage and became uninsured," said report coauthor Timothy McBride, a professor of public health at ...