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  "id": 122378,
  "title": "Medicaid work rule leaves homeless people in the cold",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/medicaid-work-rule-leaves-homeless-people-in-the-cold-122378",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-04T09:00:00.000Z",
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    "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/08/04/nx-s1-5918346/medicaid-work-requirement-montana-homeless"
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  "summary": "Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government's list of exemptions left off homeless people.",
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        "outlet": "Guardian Health",
        "title": "‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/just-cruel-medicaid-halt-in-california-and-minnesota-plunges",
        "published": "2026-08-03T12:00:17.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "NPR",
        "title": "Medicaid work rule leaves homeless people in the cold",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/medicaid-work-rule-leaves-homeless-people-in-the-cold",
        "published": "2026-08-04T09:00:00.000Z"
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