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From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:

New information from Louisiana demonstrates that substantial gaps in health care coverage are emerging among impoverished Hurricane Katrina survivors in that state. The information, gathered by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and presented below, shows that as a result of restrictions in federal law and policy, the state is being forced to deny Medicaid coverage to many indigent Katrina survivors solely because they do not fit into one of Medicaid’s eligibility “categories.” These findings have significant implications for a debate underway in Congress over how to meet the health care needs of Katrina survivors, especially the most destitute.

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