{"id":12356,"date":"2019-01-07T07:48:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T12:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12356"},"modified":"2019-01-07T07:48:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T12:48:35","slug":"medicaid-plans-cover-doctors-visits-hospital-care-and-now-your-ged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12356","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid Plans Cover Doctors\u2019 Visits, Hospital Care \u2014 And Now Your GED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Emilia Ford became pregnant at 15 and, after her daughter was born, dropped out of high school.<\/p>\n<p>As she held down different jobs during the past decade \u2014 including housekeeping and working in a relative\u2019s retail store \u2014 she always thought about going for her GED to show she met high school academic skills.<\/p>\n<p>But the Brookhaven, Pa., woman needed assistance finding tutors and paying for the set of four tests, which cost $20 each.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/medicaid-plans-cover-doctors-visits-hospital-care-and-now-your-ged\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=68781195&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--wPtbPXAewpBTaPYT0hiCf5yoN5GnyEu5034xqQ2o5joMwL24fC2rO4k5bw2bphS6IFDdEGZNKwptxYC5TXgl2cokk-A&amp;_hsmi=68781195\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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