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Daphne Young, 61, was recovering from cervical cancer and managing a complex heart condition when she arrived late last month at an Atlanta job fair desperate to reclaim health coverage through Medicaid.
In July, Ms. Young, a journalist, had moved from California to Georgia, a state with strict Medicaid eligibility limits and one of just 10 that did not expand the program to adults under the Affordable Care Act. The monthly income she listed for herself and her son was too high for her to qualify, she said.
Instead, Ms. Young was guided to a table...
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