{
  "id": 2812503,
  "title": "Too sick to work? States must get their new Medicaid rules right.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/too-sick-to-work-states-must-get-their-new-medicaid-rules-right",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-23T15:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
    "slug": "the-hill",
    "url": "https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/6044019-cancer-patients-medicaid-coverage/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cancer doesn't wait for a billing code to catch up. Neither should the states now deciding what counts as proof of illness.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}