California set to become first state to provide free health care to all low-income immigrants
The move will make low-income adults eligible for the state’s Medicaid program by 2024, regardless of their immigration status.
Healthcare
Missouri voters approve Medicaid healthcare expansion
Voters made Missouri the 38th state to approve expanding Medicaid health care coverage to thousands more low-income adults. As many as 250,000 more adults could choose to be covered by government health insurance beginning in July 2021.
California becomes the first state in the U.S. to expand health coverage to undocumented residents
The plan will provide Medicaid coverage to approximately 90,000 undocumented residents between ages 19 and 25.
Research successfully transplant lab-grown lungs in pigs
Eventually, bioengineered lungs could replace donor ones altogether. And that could make the transplant waiting list a thing of the past.
Maine voters approve expanding Medicaid under Obamacare
The vote makes Maine the 32nd state to agree to expand Medicaid to thousands of low-income adults who qualify for coverage.
Bernie Sanders to introduce single-payer bill with major support in Senate
The Medicare for All Act is backed by a third of the Senate Democratic Caucus.
Humans begin implementing dental procedures for the first time, perhaps in modern-day Italy
The earliest evidence of dental caries intervention on a Late Upper Palaeolithic modern human specimen (Villabruna) is from a burial in Northern Italy.